Busa's metaphor table

[vaneramos]

This exercise, suggested by Christopher Busa and referenced recently by lisalemonjello, has been tugging for attention.

Choose 3 key words that are resonant for you. Place each at the head of their own column and generate about 20 word associations for each keyword. Here you are at the mercy of your unconscious which enjoys toying with you and may lead you down incongruous paths....The page will evolve into clusters.

river	climate	community
path	transform	clan
music	hospitable	belonging
spirit	earth	embrace
blessing	agenda	responsibility
time	ignorance	commons
source	deteriorate	intimate
mystery	poison	rite
quest	resilience	bacchanal
pilgrimage	consequence	permaculture
fish	ecology	inherit
cleanse	web	conscience
ripple	necessity	market
elapse	famine	chorus
disturbance	addiction	harmony
sediment	hypocrisy	justice
flood	helpless	dialect
death	infant	collective
cycle	primordial	unconscious
hydrology	genesis	archetypes
power	fertility	imperative

Several clusters to work with:
1. sediment, primordial, unconscious
2. quest, famine, responsibility
3. power, addiction, bacchanal