Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.
Prompt word:
FISH
“You once told me you were a commercial fisherman…”
“I did, I did fish as a professional…”
“Why do you laugh?”
“There’s a saying about working on a dragger, or any other kind of fishing boat: ‘It’s just like being in prison… except you can drown.'”
“That’s not particularly funny…”
“Drowning?”
“No, your taking a job so tedious, dangerous and boring as working the deck of a trawler in the middle the ocean, day and night, calm and stormy”
“What can I tell you, Leanne, it was a job.”
“Now try to imagine, Ian, living a life in which the most important thing you do, the essence of what makes your life meaningful, is to follow a race of eternal and willful four-year-olds around; preventing them from hurting themselves (too severely) and above all keeping the messes they make from accumulating to the point of destroying all life on this planet…”
“The Order?”
“Yes…” the pause was the essence of gallows humor, “sir, the Order,”
“To your original question, Ian, you would do well to think of The Order of Lilith in terms of the legend of the Flying Dutch…Vrouw, determined to return to the Garden if it takes until Judgement Day.”
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Nice description of the Order of Lilith: keeping “eternal and willful four-year-olds” in line so they don’t destroy the world as they do everything they can to get back to the Garden.
Flying Dutch… you should really check on FB the campaign and London subway billboards for Dutch Barn by Ricky Gervais… I think you will appreciate the sharp humor.