Half of you: pick a thing.

areas of query:

• music
• canon
• food
• theory
• poetry
• pedagogy
• avant-garde

Half of you: pick a year.

areas of query:

• music
• art
• theory
• literature
• politics
• photography

Find a trajectory.

moving towards “stories that trace trajectories” (686).

Grounded writing. Claim. Argumentation.

Ungrounded. and unbuilt . . .trajectories.

Not every idea has to be grounded in reason. Or into reason.

3 kinds of trajectories:

Metaphor (wave, ground, ocean)

Mix (sampled moments)

Object that motivates writing (mushroom)