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June 28, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘

A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.

This weeks ‘phoTAT’:

“…Il meglio

“…è l’inimico del bene”

“!?…Il meglio…”…Il meglio…meglio! meglio? meglio!!! “

“Il meglio è l’inimico del bene…

“…bene, bene.”

“Surely the doctors have a way to help, to stop, to even slow his decline?”

“No, nothing they’ve tried since his wife signed the committal papers. I can only imagine how hard it must have been on her, to watch his decline into madness, typing his fingers bloody sitting at an old computer, long after they unplugged it from the internet.”

“Surely treatments are available, it’s the twentieth-first century, for God’s sake!”

“Nothing has worked, the full spectrum of medication… nothing. Now he spends every waking hour here in the Day Room. The orderlies collect packets of sugar each morning. We let them believe we don’t know. They’ve formed a bond with him, little comfort to his family, though…”

“He had such promise. That blog of his, at least in the beginning when it was just about personality types, brilliant. Then he got infected. Fictionaria writomania, I believe is what the admitting form lists as proximate cause.”

“…don’t go there.”

“But I could have stopped it, saved him even. But no, I had to say, ‘Your detective story has promise…’ damn that whole beta Reader conceit.”

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June 26, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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 there is but one rule: the story (inspired by the week’s prompt word) must be six sentences in length.

Prompt word:

FREQUENCY

“You’re a’scairt, that’s all you are.”

“No I ain’t!”

The two boys moved through the brush like grooms through layers of diaphanous veils and curtains securing their respective wedding nights; one slid careful hands, fingers soft pry-bars, and parted each leaf-clad branch in his path, the other, slightly older boy less taken by the beauty of flourishing wild cherry bushes equally the sting of green briars lying in wait.

The lakeshore clearing was an incidental rise of the earth; a root-knotted and ivy-greened path leading generations of neighborhood children to a betrothal chamber far from the protective (and jealous) eyes of parents and other adults; the term rite of passage is the kind of description conjured by one who has forgotten childhood, ‘the Swing’ was all anyone, of a certain age needed.

The water was dark and quiet, a flawed mirror as the sun sketched details at the whim of passing clouds, the tree, at the top of the rise, was everything the earth might be, were it possessed of a desire to experience flight and the rope hung straight, a make-shift pendulum measuring the passage of Summer.

The swing’s arc, invisible in stillness, was the ritual; the rope ,the sacrament and the frequency of its celebration measured in seasons and generations;

“Then you go first.” the boy grabbed wrist-thick rope; closing his eyes as a last defiant act in the face of fear, he ran until the earth set him free.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 25, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

‘It was a good (Saturday Night) call – fun and informative. In spite of us leaving tread marks all over one another, lol’ (Denise)

Fun Doctrine Fact: one of the indicators of two, (or more), clarks participating in a conversation is the frequency and/or tendency to ‘bump into each other’ conversationistically-speaking, that is. You know, the synchronized pauses and then starting to speak at the same moment; (and the ‘clincher’: ‘Sorry’ You go first’ ‘No, you’).

Do we care about the ‘Why’ of this phenomenon?

Of course we do! This post is about clarks. the Outsider. The congenitally-curious.

Hey! Example from ‘real’ life of identifying a clark. Friend of the Doctrine, Glenn and we were talking one Saturday night. And, occurring as it did in the parking lot of the Wakefield Mall, the topic of windshield flyers came up. In fact, there may have been what our writerly friends might refer to as ‘an inciting incident’, as upon our return to the car, someone had stuck a flyer under the windshield wiper. Being a scott (with a secondary clarklike aspect) Glenn got to the car first, spotted the piece of paper and, without comment, grabbed it, balled it up and threw it somewhere not on the car.

We laughed.

Riding away, Glenn said, “I remember, it used to make me crazy but when that happened and my father was there. He’d take the fuckin thing out from under the wiper and…. read it! Made me crazy.”

(a beat)

“What a fuckin‘ clark he was.”

We both laughed.

There you go, A short little post illustrating the characterisitc behavior of both a clark and a scott.

That’s how it works.

ok, but just one Hint: each of the three in the Doctrine relate themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up in distinctly different styles. Reading stories like this helps a New Reader to get a feel for each of the predominant worldviews, aka personality types. The simplest approach to identifying the person’s type), is:

throw out the ‘no-fricken-way they’re a (clark, scott, roger)’ of the three. In our example above, the key was the public littering. Glenn threw the flyer away. Enthusiastically. Had someone, driving or walking by at that moment stopped to take issue with his action, well, icing on the cake yo. Since we knew that about Glenn, we could infer that the person in the story, you remember! his father? took the flyer and read it? The opposite of littering?
that leaves us two possibilities: (he was) a clark or a roger. Now we’re into the fun, optometrist metaphor: looking at our ‘scene’ through the lens of a clark or a roger, which is ‘clearer’. Reading the flyer? Sure either one might do that. Their reaction, their apparent state of mind to this occurence. Was he,(Glenn’s father… come on! Try and keep up!) exhibiting a lot of emotion or a little. Did he seem happy or mad. According to Glenn, his father just read it. The whole thing. Not just the title or the illustration. Like he was browsing in the bookstore, (like the one that was no longer in the aforementioned Wakefield Mall), where we were parked. a roger would have reacted with emotion. (ProTip: “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel“) He did not. quid pro kokom, his Dad was a clark!

ok that was fun

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 24, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Fun Saturday Night Call-in this weekend.

In attendance: Denise. Roger and Cynthia and yours truly. Topics as wide-ranging as you’d expect of three clarks and one roger. Actually, ‘careening’ is a verb that pushes its ownself to the front of the line marked: Descriptive Phrases Apply Here

Last week, we ended our ‘Wakefield Doctrine Posts (the Series!)’ with: ‘Tewesday‘

We did, this weekend, pose the question to our guests. The consensus: clarks. (as written in Cynthia’s original comment)

The ‘why’ of the consensus was interesting and, of course, enlightening.

New Readers? The thing about the Doctrine is, if you’re still reading and are thinking, “Interesting. Intriguing even, Where have I seen this before? ok, five more minutes moving up-and-down these untidy rows of ideas. descriptions of nearly familiar concpets and then, back to face the world out there.”

You’re probably a clark. (Or a scott or a roger with a very strong secondary clarklike aspect*)

* we, all of us, relate ourselfs to the world around us in one of three characteristic ‘styles’:

as would an Outsider (clark) seeing the world as a separate place (‘the world out there’ in the comment to New Readers). We are certain that we missed the day all young children were given their membership papers and secret, invisible Real Person badges. Out of an excess of caution, we decide, (as young ‘uns), that our status as Outsider is best kept on the down-low, at least until we can figure out what it is we did not learn. Or worse, why they skipped on the invitation. About being a Real Person
like a Predator (scott) living in a hostile, (but in no way a judgmental/personal/ad hominem way** Meant to be lived in, full of adventures, larger predators to contend with and plentiful prey to live on, the world is perfect
in the manner of the Herd Member (roger) who was totally the first in line (in the reference to pre-pre-elementary education class, AP-level Sociability and Advancened Emotions-as-a-reality), the world is perfect.

ok, New Readers? Those who see in the three bullet points the indication of why we say that the Wakefield Doctrine is for clarks… you may leave early.

…no, wait, it was suggested Saturday that, with the clutter of our Fiction Writing, it might be useful to take advantage of the search function in this blog.

Optional Reading

at beach? here ya go

sitting out back on the the deck? don’t say we never gave you anything (to read)

** heh heh he wrote add hominem… ha ha

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June 23, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. To that end, the following is a list of the people, places and things that elicit, stimulate, inspire and otherwise leaves a hand-written-note on a 4-times-folded, half-of-a-full sheet of white letter paper. (It goes without saying that the first fold is bottom edge to top, then left side over to right.)

1) Una

2) Phyllis ————————————→ catching up to Una as they walk the bike path (2012)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) something, something

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pick of the Week: ‘House of Cards‘ (Frank Hubney)

6) the Unicorn Challenge Read this one! ‘My Story‘ (from Keith)

7) New project (while we await warmer weather for the bridge reconstruction to begin) re-stain the deck. (photo detail: mostly done scraping the old paint)

8) the Meadow matures: Amber Wavelets of Grain

9) alas, This week we register a hypo-grat: The start of Winter. (New Readers? Check in with Mimi. She is our resident expert on grats/hypo-grats. While technically, a hypo-grat is in the category of life events that includes: broken shoelaces on the morning of the big interview, watching the other person get the promotion that everyone knows you were a shoe-in for and hearing, like the air breathing it’s last as it is cleaved by the blade descending in the hands of the executioner from X-Chromia who takes the dreams of adolescent Y-Chromians and stops them forever with the phrase: ‘But we can still be friends’. And, as she, (Mimi, not the Executionerette (shame on you for even thinking that!) will ask you, ‘But look at the parts of your life that were enhanced by them/it. That can never be taken from you. It is their gift to you. There is a positive in the negative. It ain’t easy to see. But worth the effort when you do.’

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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