Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3264 Wagon|Car maintenance Physical
1879 Waiting Physical
2735 Walking Physical
630 Washing clothes Physical
4722 Watching Physical
4071 Wave / waving Physical
5147 Whistling Physical
5079 Whittling Physical
4080 Winking Physical
5628 Wrestling Physical
1572 Ambiguity Perceptual
4078 Blurring Perceptual
5102 Dowsing Perceptual
1944 Eavesdropping Perceptual
3835 Experiencing second-hand / vicariously Perceptual
3901 Familiarity Perceptual
4200 Hearing Perceptual
4827 Interpreting tracks Perceptual
1299 Investigating Perceptual
697 Listening Perceptual
689 Looking Perceptual
3497 Looking away Perceptual
3955 Looking back Perceptual
1563 Misreading Perceptual
4160 Moment of vision Perceptual

For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR

1363 Nosiness Perceptual
4191 Observing Perceptual
1383 Overhearing Perceptual
3532 Passing from sight Perceptual
1338 Professional surveillance Perceptual
2176 Reading / Researching Perceptual
936 Seeing Perceptual
3570 Sensing Perceptual
3213 Sensing the past Perceptual
498 Smelling Perceptual
2283 Spying Perceptual

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB

1302 Strip searching Perceptual
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
3993 Sweetness Perceptual
2921 Tasting Perceptual
2922 Tickling 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

552 Voyeurism Perceptual
1726 Watching Perceptual
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
536 Ethics Philosophical
2402 Evolution Philosophical
3350 Existentialism Philosophical
1006 Freedom Philosophical
5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
3520 Human experience Philosophical
1159 Human nature Philosophical
4258 Individualism Philosophical

Beyond self-reliance, this concept also folds in ideas of treating people as individuals and a deep skepticism about organizations, institutions, or perspectives that group people together. In its base form it is anti-government, anti-collectivist, anti-group think, but not a full-fledged political doctrine like Libertarianism. JB and EP

3878 Infinity Philosophical
533 Justice Philosophical
2272 Luck Philosophical
3509 Metaphysics Philosophical
2271 Movement Philosophical
2969 Nihilism Philosophical
712 Power of literature Philosophical
3886 Progenitive / Self-reproductive Philosophical
3125 Redemption Philosophical
3902 Reduction / summing up Philosophical
3124 Salvation Philosophical
1223 Suffering Philosophical
3905 Tedious / tedium Philosophical
3832 Unnatural / Contrary to nature Philosophical
3193 And monuments Past
3455 Anxiety about|Resistance to change Past
3059 As explanatory Past
3174 Discovering it Past
2857 Family history Past
3093 Freedom from it Past
1555 Grander than present Past
4894 Historical wrong Past
2353 Innocence Past
1627 Old days Past
1303 Parental Past
1322 Past in present Past
4206 Past vs present Past
3560 Personal past Past
3008 Prehistory Past
4671 Quest to recover 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.)

2862 Relics Past
3013 Repetition Past
4284 Traumatic Past
2418 Yoknapatawpha founders Past
Vocabulary: Environment
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
4726 Beyond living world passim Otherworldly
3879 Earth / the world Otherworldly
3849 Hellfire Otherworldly
3946 Moon / Lunar Otherworldly
3629 Acrid Olfactory
2772 Alcohol Olfactory
3958 Ammonia Olfactory
3959 Animal / stable Olfactory
2135 Bad smell Olfactory
3921 Baking / bread Olfactory
3397 Benzene Olfactory
2558 Bordello Olfactory
4396 Camp-fire smoke Olfactory

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