Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
648 Legal surrender Moral
637 Taunt Verbal
634 Auction Interaction, Social
632 Command Verbal
630 Washing clothes Physical
623 Prohibiting Moral

Here in the general sense of interdiction, forbidding, proscribing - rather than "prohibition," i.e. outlawing alcohol. JW
619 Shopping Interaction, Social
612 Elopement Interaction, Social
605 Cursing Verbal
575 Uncertainty Mental
563 Threat Verbal
558 Rumor Verbal
553 Flight Movement
552 Voyeurism Perceptual
550 Fighting Violent
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
647 Innocence Character
646 Clock Objects
645 Furniture Objects
642 Junk Objects
640 Remembering passim Memory
633 Watch Time
631 Appearance-plain Body
629 Face Body
626 African-American Community
618 Dogs Animals
617 Absence as disguise Absence/Loss

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR
609 Door Recurring Tropes
606 Wild horses Animals
601 Control Chaos/Order
595 Horses Animals
594 Wildness Chaos/Order
593 Cattle Animals
591 Truth/Lies Values
588 Razor Objects
587 Pistol Objects
584 Eyes Body
583 Hair Body
580 Nickname Naming
576 Return Arrivals/Departures
573 Secrecy Arrivals/Departures

This term is for occasions when people leave a place in order to hide something from their neighbors, as when Flem and Eula go to Texas so that the birth of her illegitimate child can be kept secret from the population of Frenchman's Bend. SR
571 Communal mythology Story-telling
Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
644 Class consciousness Class
643 Rural poverty Clothes
639 Femininity Gender
638 Men vs women Gender
635 Ambition Class
624 Middle Class
621 Women Clothes
616 Wound War
615 Hierarchical Race
602 Rural Identity, Cultural
599 Auction Economy
596 Forgery Crime
592 Theft|Robbery Crime
590 Generational reform Government
585 Masculinity Gender
582 Illegitimacy Sexuality
579 Shabby Clothes
577 Gambling Economy
574 Testimony Law
572 White supremacy Prejudice
569 Bootlegging Alcohol
567 Mob behavior Group Mentality
564 Pregnant out of wedlock Sexuality
562 Respectability Class
561 Women Gender
556 Bargaining Economy
555 Undressing Clothes
549 Apron Clothes
548 Acquittal Law
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
641 Neologism Style
627 Water Figures of Speech
622 Western vernacular Diction
613 Indeterminacy Narrative
608 Simile Figures of Speech
598 Handwriting Typography/Orthography
586 Communal narrative Narrative
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
636 Pre-dawn Time of Day
614 Midnight Time of Day
611 Summer Time of Year
607 Decay Olfactory
603 Moonlit Atmospheric
600 Ditch Place
589 Memphis Place
581 Stillness Atmospheric
578 Kitchen Domestic Space
570 Barn Place
559 Monday morning Time of Day
557 Rural Place
554 Frenchman's Bend Place
551 Spring Time of Year
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
628 Elopement Marital
625 Abusive Marital
620 Sibling Familial
610 Female Intergenerational
604 Mother-daughter Familial
597 Adversarial Social
568 Kinless Familial
565 Father-daughter Familial
560 Shotgun marriage Marital

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