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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 8, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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Hosted by Denise

This week’s prompt word:

KEY

Since time immemorial, Music has been referred to as ‘the language of the gods’. This comes as small surprise to those inclined to consider the role of music in the world of Man, in fact, given the endless ways found to create it, the plural form, ‘gods’ seems only reasonable.

Of course, the natural world, abounding in examples of proto-music, ranging from the songs of birds, the howls of predators and the deep-sea chorus of many, if not all cetaceans, nevertheless only serves to betray a flaw when given over to man (and woman) to embrace and express this divine gift.

Just as the tropical storm is not the Ocean, the instruments fashioned (and voices trained) are not Music, merely individual mechanisms to amplify what is within the soul. At the heart of the dysfunction is denial on the part of whatever culturally-favored depiction of God one might prefer, a refusal to acknowledge that all songs and symphonies, lullabies and martial exhortations are played in the key of fear.

This primal key of the songs of Man (and Woman) is the fear of loss and it is the unintended consequence of the gift from the gods, the true Original Sin being the capacity to imagine time that has yet been heralded by the rising sun.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- (the tall, thin man nearly alone)

June 3, 2022 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.

Managed, (like, barely, given the tendency of some participants to hurl words, clip phrase and generally try to incite rhetorical mayhem each week), by Denise, this is one of our contributions to the party. In this instance, a Tale from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro.

This week’s prompt word:

EDGE

The tall, thin man sat at his desk, the sound of the band on stage in the Café pounded on the door to the Manager’s office like a pillow-fight in a padded cell.

“Are you going to work all night?’

The contralto voice, softly-hued tentacles moving seductively through the evening-dim light, was nearly as much one of warning as beckoning. A self-assured invitation with an aftertaste of threat, her words sought a part of the man to which few were afforded access, at least, without a cost that well exceeded the price.

A non-specific source above the desk introduced a change in the light-dark topography of the man’s face; contrasting edges softened, shadows enhanced and, like sudden movement in the corner of the eye, something moved closer to the surface, resulting in a trompe l’oeil more likely to inspire regret than pleasure.

A truism passed down through the ages of Man maintains that it’s the dying of the light that gives birth to the night, yet, as the tall man moved with deceptive grace towards the leather sofa set before a fireplace with an azurite mantle, one could be forgiven for preferring the belief that it was the voracious daylight that consumed the fertile night, the better to maintain dominion over the human world.

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Twosday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Why is a Tuesday like a Monday?’

May 31, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

As with the better Wakefield Doctrine posts, today’s will be long on inference but short on explicit instructions.

Its is well-established that Tuesdays are for clarks, among the most favored of days of the week. (Along with Thursdays and in some few, limited contexts and life stages, Sundays as well.)

Why should this be? Beats the hell out of us, this morning.

Before we get to the tre-print post, a word about the Doctrine: these reprints have probably been more enjoyable for us than the average Reader. Yeah, besides the fact that no creative strain need be endured so early in the day. But serially, it is because we are able to see the development of the content (of this blog) over time. Not merely the style and skill.

The key developments we’ve been noticing of late:

the Everything Rule
that the Doctrine is concerned with the nature (and character) of relationships

The first is, of course, a necessary description of the nature of ‘real’ reality. While the personal reality that forms the context for describing the Wakefield Doctrine is as real as it needs to be, there is not need to limit it in any manner. The three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) are but perspectives on the same thing. From this view, what is real for one is real for all three. It comes down to how (a thing) manifests in a particular personal reality.

The key development to the second errr… development (lol) is the phrase: ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (This is always followed with the observation/reminder that we did not say ‘how we relate to…’ rather, ‘how we relate ourselves to…”) Accepting a certain responsibility in life not only allows all else, it is the key to using the tools of the Wakefield Doctrine to self-improve ourselfs.

Back to the RePrint (already in progress… what with it being written seven years ago.**)

from a September* day in 2015

Yeah, I know! Didn’t we do a clark-centric Post just last week? So why not something of the scotts and the rogers? Sure, totally going to get to it. But, today is Tuesday. And Tuesday is, in fact, the most clarklike day of the Workweek.

Funny thing about this morning’s post. Well, it’ll be funny if you’re a clark. (there are some scotts and rogers out there who have secondary clarklike aspects and know the Doctrine well enough to find it funny too.) Anyway. So I’m trying to find a topic for a Post today and settle on it, (the topic and today), being Tuesday. The first thing that occurred to me was, ‘well, maybe I should just go back and find some old Posts that have Tuesday as the topic and use them!’ and I laughed. …and thought, “that is such a clarklike thing to think!*”

But it is Tuesday and I am a clark and there’s a good chance that you’re a clark and, even if you’re not, it’s a lead-pipe cinch that you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. But that’s not important right now.** What is important is telling you why Tuesday is the most clarklike Day of the Workweek. And the reason that that’s important is that this whole Wakefield Doctrine ‘personality theory’ is predicated on adopting a certain, (and deliberate), perspective on the world, your world, today. For reasons not yet fully understood. The connections and associations that comprise the three worldviews that are the three personality types, are totally, and at times, startlingly, true and accurate. They provide us insights to the world ‘as the other person is experiencing it’.

But now I’m out of time! Fortunately, I did go ahead and copy/paste a couple of sections of a couple of Posts that talk about Tuesday. Find them below.

(Hey! Here’s a fun experiment! Well, kinda only fun for me, but if you believe me (and, of the three personality types, clarks are the least likely to be caught lying.***) So…the fun experiment: I’ll write a short description of what makes Tuesday the most clarklike day of the week, without reading the sections from previous Posts. Lets see if: a) I’m still the same person I was in 2013 (or whenever these were written) and 2) whether my writing has improved at all over the intervening years!

Why Tuesdays are the Most clarklike Day of the Workweek
by clark

Tuesdays are the Most clarklike Day of the Workweek because:

they’re not Monday and, Mondays, as everyone knows, are the first of the rogerian Days of the Workweek (’cause … you damn well better accept the fact that the weekend is over and maybe, if you put your nose to the grindstone and get serious and work hard, maybe…just maybe you might be rewarded with another weekend. …maybe)

Tuesday is not Wednesday (with it’s ridiculous name… ‘Hump Day’…. I mean, seriously, who the hell came up with that name!?! ( I know!! I know!!! ” yes, clark?” rogers did because scotts got them to and the scotts had the idea given to them by a clark) still, it’s a stupid name.)

Thursdays are sort of a scott/clark kind of day… work almost done (like the scott cares and, as if the clark really ever takes credit for working hard), maybe an exam the next day… all nighter!! scotts and clarks kind of effort (the rogers study every day, like their schedule calls for)

Friday? gotta give this one to the scotts

Weekend?? sorry…whole ‘nother Post

Thats my 25 words or less! (lol)

From a while ago:

…no, the weirdest thing about clarks is their morning time. (This is not necessarily literal. It is, necessarily, the time between demands and performance. The offstage moment, as the house lights go down). That is the strangest part of ‘the experience of the world from the personal-reality-perspective of clarks (the Outsiders).
It (seems) to be a time of choice, it is (often) a time of desperate hope, it is (always) a time of incredible … distance.
This distance is not as common and simple as physical distance (although, have you ever been in a crowd of people, say an elevator, where your attention is dominated by, say the floor you are intending to travel to, and then you notice that there is a person standing very-next-to-you? you wonder briefly how you could have not noticed them), and (this distance) is not an emotional gulf between people (although, there are times when you are prepared to accept that the person you care so much about just is not invested in the relationship, and then you see an act of selflessness that takes your breath away), no, the distance is none of these.

…and another Post, I forget when this came out:

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?
Wrong.
Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !
Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:
clarks relax
scotts wake up
rogers begin to get annoyed
If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:
relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)
excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage
amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’
a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered
regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them
Well, that was …interesting!

*if that doesn’t make sense, you need to ask a clark

**

*** but not for a good reason, at least good from the perspective of the clark in question… we don’t lie because of fear (no, thank you for that thought Kristi, and while we agree that lying is a bad thing and not lying is a good thing….sometimes the underlying reason for not doing something, offsets some, if not all, of the good.)

* eww September

** hokey smoke! a key to writing of time and time travel….

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 29, 2022 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. Founded, on a dare, in 1982, the TToT bloghop has gone on to become the stuff of legend, a veritable cause célèbre among fans of grat blogs the world around. The premise is simple. The requirements minimal. The execution personal.

Our contribution, (a list of then things, people, places and/or events that have/had/has elicited a feeling/state/recollection/reminiscence of gratitude) for this week:

1) Una (watching Phyllis watching one of our favorite youtube channels)

2) Phyllis (her front yard garden)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (which for us, has been (a) rolled-parchment diploma, ribbon-hung medal emblazoned with a single word, and a red, heart-shaped pocket watch)

4) the Six Sentence Story the site for flash fiction

5) the era of facile communications, the internet, phones that take pitchas, televisions that do not require aluminum foil to enhance the picture quality and music in a variety combined with an ease of access not even dreamed of when growing up.

6) serial stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) A new serial story! As an experiment in projectile daydreaming, there is a new blog: ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro’. Although it currently boasts only one Chapter, do us a solid, head over there and follow that thang. It will, going forward have some way fun fiction from the Proprietors (Chris, Denise, Ford, Jenne, Mimi and Nick)… with occasional guest appearance of Tom (as the Cook)

8) altering the geophysical character of the front of the house (courtsey of Phyllis and Una) (see photo @2)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 …from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules: “…as you get past Grat #8 you probably feel…grateful for the approaching completion of your efforts; go ahead and put that bad boy right there at #10.” (ibid. op. cit. BoSR/SBoR 2001- 2022)

music vids

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Blast from the Past… without any need to copy paste!*

Wait just a darn minute!! There was one! (A post with the key phrase has been found. Written April of 2011. Lets put it down there at the bottom so as to allow a visitor to believe there is a living person behind the tall, green curtain.)

Semi-symmetry (or, would that be trimmtry)

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb**

clarks are heartless, scotts are cruel and rogers are mean***

What, about the triplets above, is helpful to the new Reader?

First, it serves as a reminder of the Everything Rule. Everyone does everything at one time or another. Even to the extent of the impression they project to those around them.

Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clark, scotts and rogers )

You shoulda called in last night!¹
We had a very interesting and, at times provocative discussion with RCoyne, DownSprings glenn and DS#1 on line and live!

The (discussion) began with the roger being asked why he persisted in efforts to get a collaborative project started over at his blog, the Scatter Muffin, in the latest Post. He did not have a particularly good explanation, which, only naturally, caused the question to be asked by glenn and me, “Why the hell did you ignore both of our Comments’? This prompted a fairly technical discussion of the nature and practical (and theoretical) application of rogerian expressions. Both DownSpring glenn and I were interested in finding out if rogers used rogerian expressions as a form of aggressive strategy. RCoyne, he be sayin, “No!”

The Topic (of the Show) then shifted to finding out if RCoyne knew the ‘meaning’ of the vacuum cleaner that formed the focus of his recent dream/Post topic. glenn attempted the gestalt strategy of asking him to speak for the appliance, ‘zo now, mine little chicken and dumplings, I vant you to be zee vacuum cleaner!’
But to no avail. (Like DS#1 before him), our Progenitor went into extreme oversight-mode and mum was the damn word. Now at about this point in the Show, DS#1 joined the fray and, as is true of her kind (clarklike female), she instantly assimilated both the content and the context of the conversation. Of course, before you could consider one answer, the topic moved on to the question, ‘What is the Achilles Hell of clark/scotts/rogers‘. ( Now, we wuz treadin terra incognita, y’all)

The discussion became even more technical and before you could say ‘delusional-compensatory life-coping construct’, the Progenitor roger and both DownSprings were totally gangin up on yours truly.

Keep in mind, these are the people at and around the Wakefield Doctrine back when it was still the theory of clarks and scotts and rogers, hell even before that. But they could give as good as they could take, even when the notion of a single descriptor ( of clarks, scotts and rogers) was put into the conversation. I mentioned, in passing a mere rhetorical filigree, if you will, that it would be useful to understand just why it was true that:

clarks are crazy

scotts are stupid

rogers are dumb

Since Ms. AKH was unable to get in on the fun, lets ask her the question: is the above assignment of descriptions valid, or what? glenn made the excellent (and obvious) point that as descriptive terms go, these are considered by most to be “..really, quite pejorative. Most people will react to the connotations that are inextricably attached to these words, their use is fairly problematic“²

1) the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Live call-in show, nothing less than the coolest concept in the otherwise lame-intensive world of blogs, blog writing and blog readers

2) yeah I understand your reaction, you are right, that is the same DownSpring glenn who, like a profane Eskimo, has 73 different words for Fuck, but pretty much likes to just use the word ‘Fuck’.

*not sure if we wrote specifically to the topic

** interestingly enough, rogers do not find this one at all amusing (yeah, scotts and clarks think it’s funny

*** ditto¹

1) You know, you’re absolutely right. We didn’t address the second triplet. Or, for that matter, how the Everything Rule applies.

Briefly now:

Everyone has, at one time or another, deliberately tried to hurt another person. Maybe they deserved it, maybe it was fun and maybe one was feeling bad and wanted to feel better. Doesn’t matter. What does matter, how this act/impulse/appetite manifests is determined by the personal reality of the one initiating action; action that, deliberate or not, is clearly inimical to the other.

Now that we think about it² does the act acquire it’s negative connotation from the actor or the object? Interesting. Remind us to re-address this question on a morning we have more time.

2) lol no! we think about the finding…copy and pasting in a RePrint Monday. Really!

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