Keywords
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3312 | Awareness of time | 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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| 3294 | Being late / tardiness | Time | ||
| 3293 | Being on time / punctuality | Time | ||
| 3167 | Being outside of time | 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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| 4281 | Cyclical | Time | ||
| 3513 | Duration of time | Time | ||
| 1932 | Frozen / Static | Time | ||
| 2051 | Future | Time | ||
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 4368 | Lost time | Time | ||
| 3515 | Measuring time | Time | ||
| 521 | Past | Time | ||
| 2600 | Permanence | Time | ||
| 2907 | Return to present time | Time | ||
| 3463 | Routine | Time | ||
| 1995 | Running out | Time | ||
| 2964 | Series of events experienced as long duration | Time | ||
| 4366 | Simultaneity of time | Time | ||
| 3346 | Timelessness | Time | ||
| 2527 | Town clock | Time | ||
| 795 | Transcended | Time | ||
| 1549 | Travel back in time | Time | ||
| 4294 | Unsynchronized clocks | Time | ||
| 633 | Watch | Time | ||
| 2874 | Working day | Time | ||
| 4419 | Accounts | Texts | ||
| 4847 | Anthropological | Texts | ||
| 4818 | Bible | Texts | ||
| 906 | Case file | Texts | ||
| 745 | Census | Texts | ||
| 4709 | Christmas card | Texts | ||
| 4051 | Citizenship papers | Texts | ||
| 1678 | Civic records | Texts | ||
| 4815 | Cook book | Texts | ||
| 4799 | Death certificate | Texts | ||
| 1998 | Deed | Texts | ||
| 4860 | Drawing | Texts | ||
| 4441 | Epitaph | Texts | ||
| 3173 | Graffiti | Texts | ||
| 1731 | Ledger | Texts | ||
| 1705 | Letter of protest | Texts | ||
| 1343 | Letters | Texts | ||
| 2721 | Love letter | Texts | ||
| 4703 | Magazine | Texts | ||
| 4044 | Map | Texts | ||
| 3023 | Military communications | Texts | ||
| 5393 | Mottoes | Texts | ||
| 1709 | Newspapers | Texts | ||
| 4668 | Note | Texts | ||
| 5259 | Notice | Texts | ||
| 3092 | Novel | Texts | ||
| 4045 | Plat | Texts | ||
| 5004 | Poetry | Texts | ||
| 5095 | Poster | Texts | ||
| 4650 | School book | Texts | ||
| 3000 | Telegram | Texts | ||
| 4132 | Title | Texts | ||
| 4871 | Translation | Texts | ||
| 4601 | Treaty | Texts | ||
| 4572 | Will | Texts |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5499 | Appliance | Technology | ||
| 5542 | Atomic bomb | Technology | ||
| 4026 | Automobile | Technology | ||
| 5553 | Cadillac | Technology | ||
| 2301 | Car | Technology | ||
| 4465 | Car tire | Technology | ||
| 5545 | Construction equipment | Technology | ||
| 5235 | Cotton gin | Technology | ||
| 2528 | Electricity | Technology | ||
| 1450 | Elevator | Technology | ||
| 1663 | Invention | 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 |
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| 2529 | Neon | Technology | ||
| 5514 | Plastics | Technology | ||
| 4924 | Printing | Technology | ||
| 4639 | Public telephone | 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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| 4316 | Radio | Technology | ||
| 3386 | Running water | Technology | ||
| 3590 | Ship's wheel | Technology | ||
| 3586 | Shipping schooner | Technology | ||
| 3585 | Shipping tugboat | Technology | ||
| 3533 | Steam locomotive | Technology | ||
| 5511 | Steamboats | Technology | ||
| 4708 | Streetcars | Technology | ||
| 5384 | Telegraph | Technology | ||
| 2279 | Telephone | Technology | ||
| 1664 | Television | Technology | ||
| 4533 | Typewriter | Technology |
| Term ID | Term |
Parent |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2928 | Archetype | Symbolism |
I did not see archetype anywhere else in the keyword list, so I added it here under symbolism - for when a text refers to something clearly archetypal, like the tree in S&F. -JBP |
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| 1560 | Blood | Symbolism | ||
| 4887 | Cage | Symbolism | ||
| 2506 | Christian | Symbolism | ||
| 4152 | Cleansing power of water | Symbolism | ||
| 1715 | Created by characters | Symbolism |