The idea that writing is like walking is a well-trodden intellectual path frequented by the notoriously tireless. Starting from the succinct question "What's going on?", Ann Cotten addresses three fringe areas of contemporary poetics that intersect in their search for non-kitschy motivations for aesthetic production. The motif of walking is initially taken seriously: Ann Cotten's first lecture, "Modes of Movement Like Exaggerated Theories," critically examines the metaphor, ranging from the Funny Walks of Monty Python to poetry and the prairies of prose. The second lecture picks up on the colloquial double meaning of the title and reflects—given the advancing digitalization of our world—on the possibilities of literature and the limits of grammar. It sheds light on areas that one cannot grammatically reach. In the third lecture, "Ink Kilometers.".