Keywords

Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
3909 Escaping Physical
3922 Screaming Physical
3930 Capture Physical
3931 Chase Physical
3963 Nodding Physical
3970 Climbing Physical
3986 Rolling / wallowing Physical
3989 Turning away Physical
4069 Panting Physical
4071 Wave / waving Physical
4080 Winking Physical
4251 Extinguishing fire Physical
4304 Dragging Physical
4607 Fasting Physical
4610 Rescuing Physical
4661 Camping Physical
4722 Watching Physical
4727 Crowding Physical
4732 Showing Physical
4855 Being pursued Physical
5079 Whittling Physical
5120 Squatting Physical
5135 Cutting Physical
5140 Starting fire Physical
5142 Concealing Physical
5147 Whistling Physical
5167 Emptying Physical
5168 Climbing/descending rope Physical
5180 Struggling Physical
5186 Breaking Physical
5276 Questing Physical
5628 Wrestling Physical
5703 Lying down Physical
5746 Stomping Physical
498 Smelling Perceptual
552 Voyeurism Perceptual
689 Looking Perceptual
697 Listening Perceptual
936 Seeing Perceptual
1299 Investigating Perceptual
1300 Surveillance Perceptual
1302 Strip searching Perceptual
1338 Professional surveillance Perceptual
1363 Nosiness Perceptual
1383 Overhearing Perceptual
1563 Misreading Perceptual
1572 Ambiguity Perceptual
1726 Watching Perceptual
1944 Eavesdropping 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

2176 Reading / Researching Perceptual
2283 Spying Perceptual

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

2921 Tasting Perceptual
2922 Tickling Perceptual
3213 Sensing the past Perceptual
3497 Looking away Perceptual
3532 Passing from sight Perceptual
3570 Sensing Perceptual
3835 Experiencing second-hand / vicariously Perceptual
3901 Familiarity Perceptual
3955 Looking back Perceptual
3993 Sweetness Perceptual
4078 Blurring 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

4191 Observing Perceptual
4200 Hearing Perceptual
4827 Interpreting tracks Perceptual
5102 Dowsing Perceptual
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort ascending Description
533 Justice Philosophical
536 Ethics Philosophical
712 Power of literature Philosophical
1006 Freedom Philosophical
1159 Human nature Philosophical
1223 Suffering Philosophical
2271 Movement Philosophical
2272 Luck Philosophical
2402 Evolution Philosophical
2969 Nihilism Philosophical
3124 Salvation Philosophical
3125 Redemption Philosophical
3350 Existentialism Philosophical
3509 Metaphysics Philosophical
3520 Human experience Philosophical
3832 Unnatural / Contrary to nature Philosophical
3878 Infinity Philosophical
3886 Progenitive / Self-reproductive Philosophical
3902 Reduction / summing up Philosophical
3905 Tedious / tedium 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

5559 Freedom of choice Philosophical
1303 Parental Past
1322 Past in present Past
1555 Grander than present Past
1627 Old days 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.)

2353 Innocence Past
2418 Yoknapatawpha founders Past
2857 Family history Past
2862 Relics Past
3008 Prehistory Past

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