Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3986 Rolling / wallowing Physical
1862 Running Physical
3693 Saluting Physical
2761 Sawing Physical
3922 Screaming Physical
1316 Searching Physical
4732 Showing Physical
2783 Sitting Physical
2757 Sleeping Physical
5120 Squatting Physical
1413 Stalking Physical
5140 Starting fire Physical
3908 Starting over Physical
5746 Stomping Physical
5180 Struggling Physical
2479 Taking Physical
1861 Throwing Physical
2976 Touching Physical
3686 Trampling Physical
869 Transporting Physical
3091 Travel Physical
1443 Trembling Physical
3808 Tripping Physical
3989 Turning away Physical
1367 Undressing Physical
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

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