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.
thanks, Frank
(as you would know, relating/re-telling tales that have endured down through the ages takes a certain light, but confident touch…else ways the Reader might think it’s all make-believe)
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.
I do… (I do enjoy Ricky G) thanks for the linkage
And since we’re talking Garden ( notice the genious way he makes them laugh after “Adam is happy” without saying a word)
https://youtu.be/BGASvVqzOa0?si=hwqYAmPu7JfNbltJ
lol
Fabulous Dave Allen!!!!
Now isn’t that just too clever for words: dialogue: align left, align right, centre, left, right (your eye has to follow in the same way one’s head would turn following two people speaking.
And N is right; check out Gervais’s ads on FB. They’re hysterically funny, and all over the place in London, but particularly every Underground station.
Ah, but the point wasn’t to stay in the Garden, it was to spread the Garden to the whole world while caring for one another as well.
I don’t disagree but Mankind is kinda not living up to it’s potential, no?
Did you know about the oldest fishing place in South Africa? It’s called Paternoster – get that name? And, of course, that’s where that big boat came unstuck, right by Table Bay – The Flying Dutchman. So many ships sank in that place. All that wine and port dribbled out… the sea was mauve!
great story… I’ve always been fascinated by the stories about the Cape of Good Hope and it’s ‘counter-part’ the Straits of Magellan’
I can relate to managing four-year olds very well at this moment. My 3-year-old dog has undergone an eye surgery, and it is a full-time task to ensure that he or his twin do not hurt the sensitive area. Putting eye-drops 10 times in a day by thwarting his attempts to escape is also a mammoth task.
I can totally imagine (none of our dogs have been fans of medications or medicine or, god forbid having to wear a cone!!