Keywords
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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1549 | Travel back in time | Time | ||
1812 | Living in the present | Time |
Added to describe Boon Hogganbeck at end of "Lion" (and related texts like "The Bear" in GDM) - someone "living in the moment," with no regard at all to the past. |
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1932 | Frozen / Static | Time | ||
1995 | Running out | Time | ||
2013 | Continuity | Time |
Any time the past is consonant with the present, or a tradition is passed on. For example, the Hampton's being Sheriffs is a historical continuity. JB |
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2051 | Future | Time | ||
2158 | Long passage of time | Time |
Perhaps self-evident, but for when a text makes a huge jump in time very quickly -- Zilphia Gant sitting beside the window "for twelve years," for instance. JBP |
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2304 | Just in time | Time |
Whenever a character arrives or performs an action, or event happens "just in time" or in the "nick of time." That is, there is narrative anticipation for time running out, but things are saved at the last moment. JB |
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2527 | Town clock | Time | ||
2600 | Permanence | Time | ||
2749 | Anticipation | Time | ||
2874 | Working day | Time | ||
2880 | Abrupt shift in time | Time |
For when a narrative makes an abrupt or unexpected shift in time - as in Benjy's narrative in S&F. |
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2907 | Return to present time | Time | ||
2964 | Series of events experienced as long duration | Time | ||
3166 | Being in time | Time |
Added to mark those moments when Quentin Compson explicitly refers to being "in" time -- subject to it, existing within it and unable to stop or evade its progression. This is opposite of course to those moments when he is "outside" of time and all that entails. JBP |
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3167 | Being outside of time | Time | ||
3293 | Being on time / punctuality | Time | ||
3294 | Being late / tardiness | Time | ||
3312 | Awareness of time | Time | ||
3346 | Timelessness | Time | ||
3463 | Routine | Time | ||
3513 | Duration of time | Time | ||
3515 | Measuring time | Time | ||
4281 | Cyclical | Time | ||
4294 | Unsynchronized clocks | Time | ||
4366 | Simultaneity of time | Time | ||
4368 | Lost time | Time | ||
4950 | And change | Time | ||
745 | Census | Texts | ||
906 | Case file | Texts | ||
1343 | Letters | Texts | ||
1678 | Civic records | Texts | ||
1705 | Letter of protest | Texts | ||
1709 | Newspapers | Texts | ||
1731 | Ledger | Texts | ||
1998 | Deed | Texts | ||
2721 | Love letter | Texts | ||
3000 | Telegram | Texts | ||
3023 | Military communications | Texts | ||
3092 | Novel | Texts | ||
3173 | Graffiti | Texts | ||
4044 | Map | Texts | ||
4045 | Plat | Texts | ||
4051 | Citizenship papers | Texts | ||
4132 | Title | Texts | ||
4419 | Accounts | Texts | ||
4441 | Epitaph | Texts | ||
4572 | Will | Texts | ||
4601 | Treaty | Texts | ||
4650 | School book | Texts | ||
4668 | Note | Texts | ||
4703 | Magazine | Texts | ||
4709 | Christmas card | Texts | ||
4799 | Death certificate | Texts | ||
4815 | Cook book | Texts | ||
4818 | Bible | Texts | ||
4847 | Anthropological | Texts | ||
4860 | Drawing | Texts | ||
4871 | Translation | Texts | ||
5004 | Poetry | Texts | ||
5095 | Poster | Texts | ||
5259 | Notice | Texts | ||
5393 | Mottoes | Texts |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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1450 | Elevator | Technology | ||
1663 | Invention | Technology | ||
1664 | Television | Technology | ||
2279 | Telephone | Technology | ||
2301 | Car | Technology | ||
2528 | Electricity | Technology | ||
2529 | Neon | Technology | ||
3386 | Running water | Technology | ||
3533 | Steam locomotive | Technology | ||
3585 | Shipping tugboat | Technology | ||
3586 | Shipping schooner | Technology | ||
3590 | Ship's wheel | Technology | ||
4026 | Automobile | Technology | ||
4316 | Radio | Technology | ||
4465 | Car tire | Technology | ||
4533 | Typewriter | Technology | ||
4639 | Public telephone | Technology | ||
4708 | Streetcars | Technology | ||
4924 | Printing | Technology | ||
5235 | Cotton gin | Technology | ||
5384 | Telegraph | Technology | ||
5416 | Race | Technology |
Whenever someone has a different interaction with technology because of their race. This is usually a Black character who is ignorant of modernity. In this example, it is Job in "Uncle Willy" who doesn't know how to use a telephone. |
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5499 | Appliance | Technology | ||
5511 | Steamboats | Technology | ||
5514 | Plastics | Technology | ||
5542 | Atomic bomb | Technology | ||
5545 | Construction equipment | Technology | ||
5553 | Cadillac | Technology | ||
5576 | Jaguar | Technology | ||
5601 | Lighting | Technology |
For when a text makes explicit reference to electric lighting (as opposed to light from fires, candles, etc.) JBP |
Term ID | Term | Parent | Description | |
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1315 | Freudian | Symbolism | ||
1323 | Shadows | Symbolism | ||
1560 | Blood | Symbolism | ||
1715 | Created by characters | Symbolism | ||
1893 | Hamsa | Symbolism | ||
2506 | Christian | Symbolism |