Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
5491 Bomb-sight Objects
5540 Wheel chair Objects
5597 License Plate Objects
5643 Tankard Objects
5645 Pitcher Objects
5646 Slop jar Objects
5681 Kettle Objects
5682 Coffee pot Objects
5683 Cup Objects
5687 Pillow Objects
1303 Parental Past
1322 Past in present Past
1555 Grander than present Past
1627 Old days Past
1814 Recent past Past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)

2353 Innocence Past
2418 Yoknapatawpha founders Past
2857 Family history Past
2862 Relics Past
3008 Prehistory Past
3013 Repetition Past
3059 As explanatory Past
3093 Freedom from it Past
3174 Discovering it Past
3193 And monuments Past
3455 Anxiety about|Resistance to change Past
3560 Personal past Past
4206 Past vs present Past
4284 Traumatic Past
4671 Quest to recover Past
4894 Historical wrong Past
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
489 Food Olfactory
607 Decay Olfactory
1102 Flowers Olfactory
1329 Evoking memory Olfactory
2063 Gasoline Olfactory
2135 Bad smell Olfactory
2201 Old woman smell Olfactory

For when Faulkner texts make explicit reference to the smell of elderly (old) women - "faint odor of old maidens" in "Go Down, Moses," the "rank smell of female old flesh" in "Absalom," etc. (Question: Does Faulkner ever reference the smell of old MEN?) JBP

2240 Smelling death Olfactory
2253 Trees Olfactory
2481 Rain Olfactory
2485 Locust Olfactory
2487 Cigar Olfactory
2558 Bordello Olfactory
2770 Urine Olfactory
2772 Alcohol Olfactory
2817 Sweat Olfactory
2858 Must Olfactory
2930 Smelling trees Olfactory
2932 Perfume smell Olfactory
2996 Weed Olfactory
3211 Pipe smoke Olfactory
3375 Ether Olfactory
3377 Excrement Olfactory
3396 Tobacco Olfactory
3397 Benzene Olfactory
3398 Shaving lotion Olfactory
3399 Starch Olfactory
3507 Sulfur Olfactory
3575 Smelling water Olfactory
3629 Acrid Olfactory
3681 Camphor Olfactory
3682 Oversweet organic Olfactory

Honeysuckle, but also the blooms from the "heaven tree" in Sanctuary, etc.

3816 Kerosene lantern Olfactory
3921 Baking / bread Olfactory
3956 Sexual smells Olfactory
3958 Ammonia Olfactory
3959 Animal / stable Olfactory
3988 Hog / pig pen Olfactory
4396 Camp-fire smoke Olfactory
4429 House Olfactory
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
4540 Smoke Olfactory
4862 Gunpowder Olfactory
5269 Milk Olfactory
5306 Decomposition Olfactory
5612 Fire Olfactory
5647 Honeysuckle Olfactory
5648 Coffee Olfactory
3849 Hellfire Otherworldly
3879 Earth / the world Otherworldly
3946 Moon / Lunar Otherworldly
4726 Beyond living world passim Otherworldly
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
498 Smelling Perceptual
552 Voyeurism Perceptual
689 Looking Perceptual
697 Listening Perceptual
936 Seeing Perceptual
1299 Investigating Perceptual
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
1302 Strip searching Perceptual
1338 Professional surveillance Perceptual
1363 Nosiness Perceptual
1383 Overhearing Perceptual
1563 Misreading Perceptual
1572 Ambiguity Perceptual
1726 Watching Perceptual
1944 Eavesdropping Perceptual
2067 Unknowable Perceptual

This term is intended to refer to when a character looks at but cannot fathom what a character (or animal) is thinking. (Keyed originally to refer to Lion in "Lion.") -JBP

2176 Reading / Researching Perceptual

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