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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Not the actual ’64 Belaire Wagon that was my first car, but this one illustrates the iconic ‘primer-red bleed-through’ that many Chevys of this vintage exhibited.

Ten Things of Thankful. Created by Lizzi. Hosted by Dyanne. Beautifully manifested and expressed by Mimi and Pat and Lisa.

Dragged behind a 1964 Chevy Belaire wagon, past ocean-beaches and urban residential danger-zones, driven by a blogger who, being willfully incapacitated both rhetorically, psychologically and, surely, spiritually, nevertheless refuses to turn over the keys to his keyboard to the few remaining friends he can claim in the blogosphere.

For this week’s list of the people, places and things, (including events, real and imagined), that elicit a sense/feeling of gratitude:

1) Phyllis

Too) Una

III) the Wakefield Doctrine

For) Short fiction and bite-sized story-ettes, the Six Sentence Story is always a sure bet. Too bad there wasn’t a universal read-text outloud app so we could listen to Six Sentence Stories as we drove along in our automobiles or were stranded in a line at the Minute Dry Cleaners. Any suggestions as to voice talent selection?

pfff-ive) The number of edits to the average TToT …five? The phonetic to the left of the parenthesis?

Sex) Made ya look! But, so as not to be totally-guilty of gratuitous Grat Item baiting, not that there’s anything approaching noticeable love scenes in either of the two on-going serials, there are emotional connections… in the Whitechapel Interlude, clearly there is something going on between Anselm and Sarah, but possibly, (at some point in future installments), also between Brother Abbott and the hunter demon inhabiting a portion of Sarah’s mind. As to ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ Diane Tierny, the hostess of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge is tending a secret orchid of affection for our protagonist who, for his part can’t seem to make a commitment to his friend and client, Leanne Thunberg. Given the slow healing to follow being divorced by his wife, Haley, Ian is a good example of how difficult it can be to distinguish a callous from a scar.

?!?!) See? (Not to worry, that should be the last of the ‘what the?!?!’… well, of the salacious variety, at any rate. To paraphrase Nietzsche, “Those who scorn the non-sensical have left their imagination locked in a childhood trunk.”)

Ate) A new summer and a new crop of thistles… in the side yard, aka the Lawn of the Triffids. (No, Una is not allowed anywhere near the side yard.) This year: New Paths!

June 12, 2021

Mine) something, something

T*n) Secret Rule 1.3 Because the Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules), is surely a gift from whatever deities eventually become mythologized as the culture of the internet, (in general), and the blogosphere, (in particular), develop a history of sufficient length to allow us early denizens to make up stories about our first experiences here in the virtual world.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘If I don’t remember writing it, it’s new content, right?’

June 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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I’m currently on a self-improvement jag. Gonna exercise, final edit my serial, ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’ and do something about finding and agent* and so, I figured, reprint!

(Really weird experience getting this post. Remind me to tell you sometime. Kinda has to do with time being like those moving walkways in airports, only traveling in all sorts of directions and velocities.)

Momentarily Monday the Wakefield Doctrine …(self-limitations and insights)

August 18, 2014 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

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

DownSpring Lizzi has this thing she does, from time to time, where she writes provocative and engaging story that seems to be about herself, only to inform the Reader, at the very end, that ‘this is fiction’.

Today’s Post is sort of like that…except in reverse (or maybe, converse). The story that follows is real enough, however the ‘point’, or ‘lesson’ or even ‘moral’ of the story may not be immediately apparent. And,

Yesterday I had a property that had a heating air-conditioning system emergency. An air-handler in the attic malfunctioned and water (condensate from the ac) was leaking through the ceiling into the bedroom below. I tried, without success, to get the plumbing and heating company to answer my calls to make a weekend service call, unfortunately they were nowhere to be found. Staring at the water dripping off the hardwired smoke detector in the bedroom ceiling I realized that I had to do something. I decided to turn off the power in the house, as house was on a well, at least I could prevent any additional water from adding to the problem. The air-handler sat in a metal pan, in order to contain any condensate created when the system was in cooling mode. The pan was overflowing, the source of the water dripping through the bedroom ceiling. My plan was simply to empty the pan. Access to the attic was by a pull-down staircase. I took a plastic drinking cup and a 5 gallon bucket, climbed the stairs, flashlight in hand, and starting bailing out the water. There was a lot of water. At least 5 trips down the stairs, with a full bucket. Now, the thing about pulldown staircases is that they have normal shaped steps from the bottom to about 3/4s of the way up, where they, (the steps), become more like ledges. You can put your full weight on them, you just can’t stand on them the way you normally do with stairs.

The operation took about 45 minutes. It was successful, provided the definition success was, ‘less water available to leak through the ceiling now than there was before I started’. I left the property and returned to my office. Getting out of my car at the office I felt my legs do that ‘tremor’ thing, you know, over-exertion total muscle exhaustion. (Like when you were a kid and someone dared you to do 50 knee bends as fast as you could?). Mind you this was the first time, (that morning), I felt that way. Each of my trips up and down the attic ladder, flashlight providing the illumination, with 5 gal bucket in one hand, were anything but tremory. In fact, each step I took was very deliberate as I did not underestimate the potential of slipping and falling out of the attic of an empty house.

But as I walked across the parking lot, I felt like I had run 8 miles. And I laughed (I am, after all, a clark). I laughed because I could see how effectively I limit myself.

Like most Readers, I try to stay healthy. I understand that exercise is a necessary component to a healthy life style and I make periodic efforts, in good faith and with sincere intentions to stay in shape. Nothing unusual there. (And) when I am in exercise mode, I will work hard, striving ‘to feel the burn’, whether it requires 30 minutes on a stationery bike or, of late, my two mile ‘run’, I am trying my best to exercise my muscles. Yet, prior to yesterday, I can’t remember the last time I felt that my legs were made of rubber. Tired out, winded, tight feeling in back of legs, sure, but rubbery? no. Clearly I have been nowhere near the limits of my physical strength/condition/capacity in a long, long time. And I was not aware of it.

That was the insight that made yesterday’s work adventure worthwhile. What we tell ourselves, about ourselves is, by and large, intended to maintain the status quo. The insidious-ness of this is that not only can I have ‘good intentions’…. (stay healthy-exercise! learn more-study! find romance-take showers!) but I can ‘take action’… (run 2 miles- boy that was tough! get a B- hey my studying paid off! find true love-I can get used to a person who uses double negatives!). All without knowing my true capability/capacity/talent really. Because of the tales we tell ourselves.

* how simple is the Secret of the Universe in terms of self-improving oneself when employing the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool? pretty frickin simple.

Votre attention s’il vous plait. Up at the top of this post, the first line? The first, type-don’t-think, version ended: “…and try to do something about finding an agent.”

Can I get an ‘Ayyyiiee’!?

My compliment to you Readers: I will say no more.

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Monday-Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Monday morning.

This Day in Doctrine posts!

…ok. I’m back… a lot of digging through old files. It took almost three years of Doctrine posts to find one written on May 3rd! But…but! what a find!

Given how, were we to continue to search for ‘This Day in Doctrine posts’ we’d totally have a bunch of them. Well, not precisely. Seeing how there remains only eight more May 3rds possible… but that’s not important now.*

What is important is that our find, our reprint today is the post that provided a new level of understanding of one of ‘the other two’ predominant worldviews.

Specifically, the rogerian worldview.

Note to New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is, among other things, a map of a nearly unreachable world(s). We, all of us, grow up and develop in one of three realities: that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers). The Doctrine describes each so that we might infer how one relates themselfs to the world around them.

(And when you learn these descriptions sufficiently, life becomes much simpler…. you go to a friend’s garage workshop and you see the shadow-relief outlines of tools on a pegboard over the workbench… like victims of the Hiroshima atrocity and you suddenly realize that you friend is a roger or, standing in line at the supermarket, one person is heard above the fairly subdued background conversation and you watch as they cut ahead of the line. This is not. however, what has you smiling at the thought of ‘that weird personality theory blog’ that your odd friend insisted you read the night before. What has you smiling is the person cutting in line, he’s telling jokes, people are laughing, hell, they’re stepping out of line in the hopes that he’d stop in their section of the line. What a scott!)

Where were we…. maps! Right! The descriptions of the three worldviews are like a map. You will recognize the streets when you walk down them. You will not see inside the houses and buildings…unless, someone from the area invites you in and that is what happened to this post written on May 3rd 2012. The result of this post (the discovery is detailed in subsequent posts.**

The take-away. What this post lead to was the discovery of the principle of ‘referential authority’. It is a major dynamic in the worldview of the Herd Members. What it wasn’t was ‘visible’ from the basic descriptions of the predominant worldview of rogers.

We discovered this ‘artifact’ as most discoveries of un-seeable objects are made: by inference. When we went to the rogers in our readership at the time and asked, ‘Well what did you think of the three possible responses to the scenaria?’ And they, the rogers, were, to a woman, “My god!! They can’t do that!! It’s an insult to the owner. That job applicant should be arrested!!”

Needless to say, the ferocity of the objection by rogers for the clarklike choice in the first scenario was a total “Hey!! Look here…closer!! There’s something going on here that is specific to the rogerian worldview.

Cool, non?

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

Today we present the second in our series of Posts that look at the process of interviewing for a job, through the lens of the Wakefield Doctrine. In each of these Posts, we will set up a job interview scenario, each in a different business sector and look at it from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine. The underlying question throughout will be, “what insight does the Wakefield Doctrine provide that will allow us to improve the chances of success in being hired in each of these situations?”

In our First Post, “Won’t you have a seat, Mr Andrews will see you in a moment“, we examined the strategies available to a person seeking a position in what is often referred to as ‘the corporate world’. In that first Post, we focused on the ‘pre-Interview’ phase of the employment process. With today’s Post we will stay with this convention, as it seems that, if the first episode is any indication, most Readers find the Applicant’s efforts to deal with the appointment process entertaining and instructive. Subsequent Posts in this Series, will include interviewing for positions in the Manufacturing Sector, Service Industries and Small Businesses.

Small Business Environment:

….a small restaurant, in a small coastal town which is also home to the State University. With only 10 tables and an open kitchen layout the Owner, (who is also the cook), is able to greet and interact with all the patrons. It is quite clear that he enjoys what he does, is reasonably skilled and, as a result, the business has grown rapidly. The increase in business has been surprisingly rapid and the Owner is finding that the part-time help from family and relatives is insufficient, and so the Help Wanted: Waitress ad in the local newspaper.

…The Interviewee:

The wife of a faculty member at the University, after a Sabbatical from Field Work, you have been unable to find employment in your area of expertise, Paleo-sociology (and) Urdic Languages. Rather than spend another summer in the overly large home that you and your husband share with two cats, you decide that being a Waitress wouldn’t be the worst thing you could do, at least until the market for Sociologists (fluent in farsi) improves. So you call the number in the newspaper and get an appointment to meet the Owner. Wearing your best Interview suit (a subdued brown pinstripe) and carrying your trusted iPad, you set off to the restaurant, confident that you will be able to recall your undergraduate days of work-study working in the school cafeteria.
(…. oh! do we need to mention that you are so a roger?)

(First Interaction)

The Restaurant is quite busy for 10:30 on a weekday morning. All but 2 tables are occupied, the Owner can be seen at the grill cooking, stopping to look up and wave as you enter the restaurant. He waves a spatula in the direction of the empty table near the door and goes back to cooking. There is a woman standing at the cash register, ringing out a customer. She looks up, frowns then smiles and says, “You must be Emily! To be honest with you, I’m really kind of busy right now, but I left an application on that table over there, if you want to get started I’ll try to get over to you in a minute. We’re really kinda swamped right now”.
Looking over to the table, you see a single sheet of paper marked Application for Employment

Do you:

Sit at the table (not before taking out a tissue and wiping off the table top) and begin to read the Application for Employment

Decide that the Owner should have paused at least for a moment, and come over to properly introduce himself and even though the woman at the cash register seems nice, they are both being rude, so you turn around and walk out of the restaurant

Pick up the dishes from a recently empty table and take them to what appears to be the kitchen…

The Question: if you are a roger what is likely to be your first reaction, which is the most effective strategy for getting this job. Which of the three personality types ( clark or scott or roger) is the woman ringing out the Customers? Please submit your answer (along with the reason for your picking the personality type) in the Comments section at the bottom of this Post

(Second Interaction)

…you have been sitting at the table 15 minutes (30 minutes later than the scheduled interview). The ‘breakfast rush’ has finally quieted down and the woman at the cash register brings you coffee, asks (again!) if you would like something to eat and tells you that the Owner will be over in a minute.

Do you:

ask the woman questions about the restaurant, how long has it been in business, what background the Owner has in the restaurant business

Look annoyed and ask her if it is always this busy

smile, hand her the Application for Employment that you have completed (and somehow stapled your curriculum vita to the slightly grease-spotted form) and say, “Thank you so much! I am sure that I will enjoy working here!”

The Question: if you are a roger, which of the above is likely to be your initial reaction and which, (of the three actions above), should be your reaction, in order to increase your chances of being successful in this Interview?

Well that should be enough to get us started! As with the first Interview, consider not only which of the three personality types the people in our scenario are, but tell us why you think they are (clarks or scotts or rogers )… and while it is helpful to know the correct way to get this particular type of job, add what you can about what the Wakefield Doctrine gives our Interviewee, in terms of tools or aids that will allow her to get whatever the hell it is that she wants…. (yes, Molly and Claire that is a totally leading question!)

* the whole ‘reprint thing’ is, of course, about jump-starting the wordage lobe in our brain. Today? Job done.

** what can we say, they’re all there… guess you’re gonna have to rummage through all 2300 posts

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…and that’s why, quality notwithstanding, we’ve written 23 hunnert of these things!”

April 27, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Tao, a Chinese word signifying “way”, “path”, “route”, “road” or sometimes more loosely “doctrine”

As is the way of things, (the tao, if we stick to my use of the meaning of the image above¹) we look to reprints to remind us of what we’ve forgotten to see.

It is central to the Wakefield Doctrine that we, all of us, have everything we need to attain/achieve/leverage/pretend-to-have/insist upon in life; it is just a matter of acceptance and will. (Each of these being way more that we have the space, time or rhetorical horsepower to devote to this morning. So, as is a time-honored tradition… when the muse is flagging, roll out a reprint!)

From December 2014:

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

Woke up this morning feeling a bit…pre-aggravated. Looked around, nothing to write about. Sat in front of this here computer here and… still nothing. The thought then occurred to me that this situation is not all that uncommon (well, alright, not uncommon among clarks) and there is something that the Wakefield Doctrine has that would be helpful (to me).

…still nothing.

Now, I’m starting to get pissed off. (yeah, I know….progress!) Finally I went searching the blog archives for old Posts and stumbled upon the one below. As I watched the amazing video clip/illustration of the personality types, I realized what I should have remembered as soon as I woke up: ‘I am responsible for how I feel’.
“Hey!!! but…but!”, astute Readers are trying to yell at their computer screens, unfortunately before they’ve finished swallowing that last sip of coffee, leaving caffeine-based punctuation on what they’re reading, ” but!!! you’re a clark!! you’re not of the world of feelings! you are a fish behind the wheel of a large automobile“!!
When it comes to emotions and feelings and such, I am indeed, ‘a fish behind the wheel of a large automobile’, fortunately for me, I have the Wakefield Doctrine to remind me that, though I live in the world of the Outsider, all seemingly intellectual and not all feely and such, I do have, within, the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’.

I began to feel a little…. not better, more ‘ok, there’s something that I can do about this‘…. which, as we all know, is my scottian aspect asserting itself. Our friend Christine is, at this moment, muttering at her computer, “damn straight, yo” , (or words to that effect.)
Of course, we all know that part of the conflict within clarks, when feeling ‘pre-aggravated’ is a result of the resistance of their scottian aspect to the notion of simply letting the world roll over us.

Hey, this has been good for me, but time to get to work. I am leaving y’all with a re-post from way long ago… it’s about scotts. You all know a scott. (If you’re a clark, then it’s your actual best friend, if you’re a roger, then it’s your current favorite best friend… and if you’re a scott, it’s your clarklike best friend, though you won’t think that at first*)

(from November 10 2011)

The Wakefield Doctrine has a thing about looking at people, you know, how they act and stuff? …we guarantee that if you got the smarts to understand this, (and not everyone does), then you will know more about that other person than they know about themselves. Pretty frickin cool, no? But if you’re looking for one of those, “Six Ways to get any Boy to Like you” or “Satisfy the Woman in your dreams!! ” or ” How to get your Boss off your back!” self-improvement things then stop reading. Right now.
This Wakefield Doctrine thing is so not that kind of personality theory. (Not saying that you won’t be able to ‘satisfy the Woman in your Dreams’ or ‘get your Boyfriend a Job’), just that what we have here takes a little more….  flexible intelligence. So. Read already!

No, the Wakefield Doctrine is not like those other self-development books….the Wakefield Doctrine is fun and it is useful and it is fun…

Today we are going to talk about scotts! (Want to get a quick overview of the Doctrine?  go here and read….be sure to come back!)

scotts, scotts scotts! where to start?   … hell, it’s Thursday, lets take the easy way out just to get the ball rolling, so to speak.¹

Some bullets points relating to the nature and character of the scottian personality type:

scotts are totally emotional but in a way so very different from rogers, mercurial is the right word for the emotional characteristic of scotts

scott   in a band? the ‘front man’ every time (don’t believe me? go look at the photo of the progenitors, click here  those three mugs were in a band together (yeah, I know!) and can you tell me who the front man was?…hell you know which one is the Progenitor scott without anyone telling you, don’t you?)

at a party scotts will introduce themselves (…..to everyone)

when confronted with a threat or other fear-generating situation, a scott will choose to attack rather than flee

scottian females can be ridiculously sexy or quick witted, …hardly ever both. (ed note: 2014 ‘ha ha’)

(female) scotts can be spotted because they have prominent throat tendons (go ahead….ask us why)

Seeing how the scottian population is, of late, growing here at the Doctrine, lets cater to the their totally famous short attention-spans and use a video that shows us a scott doing what they do best! Watch and learn, binyons!

How scottian was David Caruso’s character? how clarklike was DeNiro’s character? and the cop that backed down to the scott?, not too rogerian ! Hell, he was the only one in the scene to have a hat on his damn head!
So lets review:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.    scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain.  scotts make good leaders, (at least when decisive action is required…when long-term objectives take precedence over short-term victory…not so much).     scotts are ‘the life of the party’… scotts are the best of joke tellers and are natural mimics.  scotts will feed on rogers and enjoy the challenge of clarks… scotts will give you the shirt off his back/ the use of her boyfriend but will not tolerate being ignored… they are un-selfish and short-sighted… ingenious and stupid… emotional and shallow… sexy and predatory… endearing and dangerous… get the picture?

1) that’s a joke for the scotts reading this

* meaning…if your back is to the wall and you’re going to have to go up against overwhelming odds, your clarklike friend is your best bet… most of the time, passive and half asleep, get them riled up and they be crazy

Hey! We’re back! In ‘real’ time. How cool is this here Doctrine here? Glad ya asked. That interaction between David Caruso and Mike Starr (‘Chivas and milk’ big guy last out of the scene…) a scott-on-scott. And, the fun thing is watch the dynamic as they do the ranking thing that all scotts do… As Bernadine told me, twenty-four years ago, in response to my question, “Do you feel bad if it turns out you’re not alpha in a pack?” Her answer: “No, you idiot!” connected to gales of good-natured laughter, (Bernadine was such a scott), “there’s nothing bad about it, it’s all about knowing where you are in the pack.”

You can totally see it in the face of the character. And, implicit in this, is it’s quite possible for the two of them to face-off in different circumstances and neither would say, “But I was alpha last time!” Here and now for our scottian friends… here and now. (As a further anchor in reality, remember back to high school, fights between two guys, they’d end up ‘buddies’ if they are scotts establishing ranking.)

1) how cool is that definition below the above logogram or, Hanzi (at least I gather from me dip into the Wikipool of Knowledge)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

So, we were taking part in an interview, courtesy of our Six Sentence Story friend, D. Avery, earlier in the week. It was both challenging and fun. (Read it here.) The challenging part was over quickly enough, i.e. overruling my natural inclination to respond to the invitation with a brusque, “Err…no thank you”*.

That being said, it was fun to ‘get out’, and the members of the blog that hosted the interview, ‘the Carrot Ranch‘ are a genuinely accomplished and interesting group of writers. Ostensibly an interview with us as a writer, along with a ‘set up’ (of) an interview with a character (Ian Devereaux), the Wakefield Doctrine naturally came up. Not so odd, as many of the questions were about writing and approaches to writing.

So, as often happens when it is the topic, one of the participants asked about the Doctrine. Rebecca Glaessner, a participant at ‘the Ranch’, wrote a comment on the interview, which included the words, “… your theory of Clarks(sic) resonates deeply.”

….well!

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people who make it up. We are, all of us, born with the potential to experience reality in one of three distinctly (but secretly interrelated) separate ways, as would an Outsider(clarks), a Predator(scotts) or a Herd Member(rogers). At an early age we settle into one (and only one) of these three personal realities. The social styles, the interpersonal strategies we develop (our personality types) are in response to the world we experience it.

A clark lives in the world of the Outsider and so learns to stay out of the spotlight (while contending with a insatiable curiosity), a scott starts running and only stops when necessary, the world of the Predator not being kindly disposed to introspection and, the Herd Member, well, they’re at home the minute they look around; rogers, living the life of the Herd, belong and looking, receive confirmation there is a Right Way to do things and it’s merely a matter of completing the list for all to be right in the world.

While we have only one predominant worldviews, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. (This will explain why sometimes, usually under duress, we find ourselves acting like someone else. Example: I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. I know about a personality theory and will tell you at the slightest provocation. lol)

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

clarks live in their minds, scotts in their bodies and rogers in their hearts.

The highest accomplishment one can achieve employing the Wakefield Doctrine is to fully appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us. The guiding ambition behind learning and employing the perspective made available by the Doctrine is be able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

(Pro-tip: Search youtube for: ‘the pen scene’ in ‘Casino’ and ‘I’m gonna get you Stewart’ in ‘Wolf’ and bar scene in ‘Maddog and Glory’ (the one with David Caruso in the thumbnail).

You will be treated to a scene(s) of: a roger and a scott, a scott and a roger and a clark and a scott, respectively. Language advisory (well, one them has Joe Pesci in it, after all! lol)

So let’s end this with a simple warning: Once you’ve learned the characteristics of the three worldviews** Well, at least enough to spot the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may be unable to not see them.

With the Wakefield Doctrine as an additional perspective, you will know more about the other person than you should. Use this power wisely. …and discreetly.***

* lol so, what, exactly would a brusque, ‘errr’ sound like? I’d say, ‘Once a clark, always a…’ however, as the old saying reminds us, “Awareness is nine-tenths of change”

** any clark will betray their own worldview by the quickness they accomplish this. Not such a surprise, seeing how we (clarks) are all trying to make sense of the world around us.

*** no! serially! in the early days, given half a chance, I’d say to people…”Yeah, it’s like a personality theory, except better! For instance, even though we met only a few minutes ago, I can tell you what shoes you have in your closet… hey! Where you going?!”

lol