The topic incites me to parlous pondering".
And, to my surprise, it was not always the flesh that incited me.
My own experience has been that cold food that lacks any aroma barely incites me to hunger.
There is one architect whose work reflects my taste and incites me to escape it at the same time: Adolf Loos.
And no gardener close to New York City should miss the great glasshouses at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx (nybg.org), where the soaring palms and figs inspired my first trip to the Amazon, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (bbg.org), where a world-famous bonsai collection might incite me to yet another dangerous habit.
Even though I was initially apprehensive about teaching a large group of teenage students, my passion for education and my desire to teach incited me to take up this challenge.
But unlike the other three moves, this one, I believe, never came centre stage to be noticed by the SFL community in general: the publication (Hasan [2001]) was not widely disseminated, and nothing incited me to actively try to foreground its potential.
For further information on this, foccusing on American society, see Rosalyn Deutsche's enlighting book of the same title Evictions, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1998 (maybe a bit too "feminist" at times, but it might be my own gender that incites me to see it that way).
As an activist, my aim is to make my work irrelevant as soon as possible by helping end the injustices that incite me to write.
