Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
As sure as the sun rise, baby…
…in the tradition of bloggers, since time immemorial (or, say, 2009), I’m inserting a music video in the hopes of stimulating my ‘hey-it-meant-something-to-you-a-lifetime-ago-why-wouldn’t-total-strangers-get-something-out-of-it?’ gland and try to finish this Post.
(ed note: of course, that was the Allman Brothers, back when everyone was alive and it (‘Not My Cross To Bear’), was a staple of the dorm playlists. dormitory music motto: ‘the place one’s parents paid a lot of money to live in, that sounded like those big city apartment scenes in most crime movies, pretty much just before the good guys almost catch the bad guys, but manage a decent shoot-out nevertheless‘ )
Still, nothing for the letter X….
while we wait, let me suggest you go and visit our friends posts, they’ve written something interesting. Go see Val and Kristi, then head over to Dyanne and Zoe’s and, even though she’s pulled the plug on the ‘Again-and-again April Blog Challenge’, stop by Christine’s place.
…awright! 163 (words and counting)
I’ll forgo the odd X words: xylophone, Xylocaine* Xanthippe** xenophile, X Chromosome (lol…no, not a word!)
So! That was a fascinating Post!
You know, it was originally my thought to compile this series of posts as my ‘ok, here’s a pre-rough preliminary draft of something I really should try to get on-line published‘. The idea being that it would offer an overview of the Wakefield Doctrine, in a format that is ‘accessible’ or, at very least, familiar to readers. There are a couple of Posts I may need to rewrite, but the sense I get is that, the interesting thing about this here blog here is the process, the conversation that has developed and evolved. That’s not saying that the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘standalone interesting’ but, since I’ll be the first to admit that what we have here is chance, anecdotal, yet still a rather fresh insight into personality and behavior, I should not try to write a ‘real book’.
If, however, I persist in my ambition to produce something that will stand alone and allow a total stranger to read once and acquire an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, sufficient to either:
- a better understanding of the people in their life or, failing that,
- enjoy the experience of seeing (the) clarks, scotts and rogers that populate their world, all acting just like the Doctrine says they will!
I better frickin do it. That wouldn’t be a bad thing, would it?
OK! you’ve convinced me. Couple of more Posts to conclude this rogerian slow-motion train wreck and then I can start vexing myself over the horrible problem of compiling this thing into a ‘Begining-Middle-End’ work of literature.***
* no! really! this is what I found when I went to check the spelling (spellcheck has a problem with a lot of X based word), no word of a lie:
“Causes numbness or loss of feeling in an area of your body.
Given before and during surgery, childbirth, or dental work.
Also treats emergency heart rhythm problems. ” (is it just me that finds that sequence of concerns amusing?)
** wife of Socrates… a real cut-up, according to ‘the Wikipedia’… the things we learn on bloghops!
*** yeah! I did, in fact, use the L word in reference to this here blog here…
