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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Thie is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A weakly collection of emotional artifacs intellectual detris and other flotsam of everyday life, it’s fun and you should join in.

If you’re weird-warning lights are pulsing, we have some very talented co-hostinae who will be happy to walk you through the process (and past that room with the odd sounds and strobing lights). Give ’em a shout, you won’t regert it. cohostinae: Mimi, Kristi, Lisa, Dyanne, Denise and Misky.

For the Doctrine, the following list of ten(ish)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Order of Lilith and the kind words of Misky last week. While it’s probably best to simply continue to write about the adventures of our characters as we did in one Six this week, in the interim we;ll do random chapters, like finding the next issue of a magazine in a dentist waiting room. So, from somewhere in the middle of ‘the Whitechapel Interlude we have this interaction (interest note: the characer of Count St. Loreto appears in other storues from the Wakefield Doctrine Serial Storues! A taste:. Click Here.

5) amusing photo of a clark’s solution to a problem. the ‘problem’ being: how to best document a broken pane of glass in a window. Interesting ‘language training’ in Wakefield Doctrine for our more advanced students! We see how an average clark would solves the problem. A better way of saying that is, ‘this is how the solution manifests in the world of the Outsider’ (lol read that last phrase again look at the photo…clarks will get it)

6) Hoku Smoje! We remembered to take a Before photo! (of course, this is actually a ‘Now’ photo. it does serve to set up the ‘After’ photo (once we’ve completed the clean-up refresh of Ola’s grave). Though it should be understood, the abandoned graveyard in the forest is a fun look as well. (scene: brushing away pine needles to show OLA 1991-2001 bracketed by carved-relief dogwood branches)

7) bloghops!! the Unicorn Challenge and the Six Sentence Story. Go there. Read. Participate. If you’re really daring, tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

8) Part of the required material for the renovation project is beach sand from Ola’s favorite beach. Below is a photo of the first of a number of trips to harvest said material.

9) the internet in general, the utube videos below inparticular. Warning! You must be “T^H^I^S _OLD” to know the references and enjoy the thing.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

First vid? No introduction….err possible. (damn! this internet does have a good side)

presto! no sharks!

of course we found a metal version!

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Unicorn Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 16, 2025 By clarkscottroger 11 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’

“I don’t know, an anorexic kangaroo?”

I hesitated. It wasn’t simply the Evaluation Team was wired into my session. It wasn’t that so much rode on unlocking the puzzle locked in his head. If the truth be known, I was tired from a long search without much success.

“Look, at least gimme a hint?”

The AI on my wrist began flashing. With a little more force than appropriate, I switched it off. Seeing a glowing yellow on my monitor, I let a favorite mantra lull my increased entroetine levels.

“Sorry, not permissible. Remember what we talked about when we began…”

“You’d show me objects and pitchas and such and then I could go home.”

“Exactly. So clear your mind and, before you or I know it, we’ll be on about our day.”

I relaxed and shifted into a more informal posture on the traditional hassock of Inquisitor. I remembered my guild’s admonition, ‘You are the clapper, the subject is the bell.’

“Forget the image. Tell me the first thing that comes to mind.”

Two things happened: the monitor lights shot into the red and my subject began to scream, “The light. What the fuck is that light?!?” Fortunately, his restraints prevented him from harm.

As he struggled against the restraints, I upped the retrograde amnesia drip to 100% while my tail held a soothing compress to his forehead.

Such a trait of self-destructing when confronting the un-familiar. I sighed at the prospect of the long journey to yet another star.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

May 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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.

Previously…

Prompt word:

WARRANT

Regardless of his age, the Sophomore was young; as is the case with most members of the human race, at his stage of life, he was good at a lot of things and less so at others, this was not an indicator of a failing in character, effort or moral fiber, it’s just how it is with the majority of young people.

Despite her age, Rosetta Storme was not young; there has always been, among those on the wings of a certain Bell Curve, people who were enrolled in what could best, if not somewhat poetically, be described as an AP course in Life; while not necessarily recognized by most college Boards of Admission or corporate Hiring Committees, such young women and men always stand out, often despite their best efforts to the contrary.

The Sophomore watched as Rosetta Storme got out of his bed in (her) all-together, walk to the bathroom, turn on the shower, continue to the kitchen to start his Mr Coffee then return to shower for ten minutes… infatuation, an insidious condition endemic in a certain age group was stirred into virulent life because of a single interrogative.

“Hey, I’m gonna borrow this shirt, you don’t mind do you?”

Watching her standing at the end of his bed, wearing only his favorite white shirt, the Sophomore didn’t stand a chance; his lack of response taken, not so surprisingly, as warrant for her appropriation.

The pheromone and hormone maelstrom raging within the young man absorbed, as fuel, even the twinge of dissonance as Rosetta proceeded to get dressed; barely noticeable along the inside of both thighs, very faint lines in uncertain, parallel rows.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine [ a Whitechapel Interlude Six cont’d]

May 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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.

This Six reboot of a Serial Six, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ (stories from the Order of Lilith) that ran until late 2020. For those who weren’t around at the time, Chapter 15 of the story should give you sense of setting and characters.

Prompt word:

WARRANT

The Order’s soup kitchen, bracketed on Thrawl Street by an apothecary and a doss house, was in a part of London the more fortunate citizens of London viewed as a regrettable but necessary price of modern times; their interactions with Whitechapel was, for the most part, limited to the occasional article in the Daily Telegraph by Charles Booth and other Reformers of his ilk.

Seemingly years, but in reality only a month or two ago, I stood in the Office of the Reverend Mother and heard my future laid out, phrases such as ‘An outstanding acolyte…’ ‘Obvious devotion to the mission of the Order of Lilith, despite the occasional lapses in judgement, both moral and ethical…’ it was her final statement that brought me out of my stubborn ‘yes-but’ state of mind, “Pending Brother Abbott’s return from abroad, I need you, Brother Anselm to take his position as Instructor in the primary education of those who hope to join our mission to avert Mankind’s premature demise.”

Now I walked up to the front of the classroom of young men and women who hoped they could demonstrate the personal qualities they believed warranted their inclusion in the next class of initiates. I smiled without judgement at the posturing and bravado, until I got to the blackboard and saw, written across the top edge:

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Even before turning to face the class, I felt a shadow cross the walls of the room as a figure filled the open doorway; I white-scrapped, in all-too temporary chalk:

Proverbs 17:6

A rumble of laughter moved close even as I turned and met the avalanche of good cheer preceding Brother Abbott’s bearhug.

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: Six Sentence Story, the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

About to shift into the fiction portion of the week’s blogposts.

ha ha

Serially, the Wakefield Doctrine posts from Monday through Wednesday is no more fiction, when compared to the posts written for the TToT or the Six Sentence Story or, even, our participation in jenne and ceayr’s Unicorn Challenge than John Cage is often mistaken for Stephen King.

(We repeat: ha ha. You want rhetorica veritas, well, do ya punk? We’ve committed to that music-fiction writing analogic-reference without first checking utube to see if it ‘works’. Too bad. Too sad. We’ll just post a music vid below without checking first.)

That’s how confident….

Wait.

It’s a given around here that ‘an easy Doctrine post’ to write, (one that all Friends of the Doctrine and most New Readers) will enjoy is: the opposite of one predominant worldview to another theme.

Hell, as the founderess of the TToT ‘hop demonstrated so many years ago, if’n you’re a clark (or have a significant secondary clarklike aspect) not only do you ‘get the whole theory of clarks, scotts and rogers‘ you will begin to extrapolate the principles and identify characteristic …..err characteristics of each of personality types that have not yet been listed in this blog.

… but, a little trickier post is the one where we search for the ironic strengths of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. They kinda interrelate themselves to each other… ‘what a surprise! lol

This is all prompted by our saying we were making a joke that involved knowledge that we’re pretty sure is correct, i.e. the music of John Cage and writing of Stephen King.

The fundamental self-confidence, based on what they admire in one of ‘the other two’:

clarks (the Outsider) knowledge and it’s manipulation that results in appearing intelligent
scotts (the Predator) confidence and certainty that provide a persuasive effect regardless of the validity or sensibility of their central thesis
rogers (the Herd Members) universality of the presumptions they make and the degree to which others will subvert their own beliefs

ok…back to writing our Six for the week

Mr. Cage, if you will?

Damn! Remind us next week to discuss ‘the Slacker Effect’*