Keywords

Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
1491 Watermelon Objects
669 Wedding license Objects
2843 Wedding ring Objects
1062 Well Objects
2470 Wheel Objects
5540 Wheel chair Objects
4150 Willow tree Objects
2021 Windows Objects
1887 Wisteria Objects
1824 Wreath Objects
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 descending Description
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
3681 Camphor Olfactory
2487 Cigar Olfactory
5648 Coffee Olfactory
607 Decay Olfactory
5306 Decomposition Olfactory
3375 Ether Olfactory
1329 Evoking memory Olfactory
3377 Excrement Olfactory
5612 Fire Olfactory
1102 Flowers Olfactory
489 Food Olfactory
2063 Gasoline Olfactory
4862 Gunpowder Olfactory
3988 Hog / pig pen Olfactory
5647 Honeysuckle Olfactory
4429 House Olfactory
3816 Kerosene lantern Olfactory
2485 Locust Olfactory
5269 Milk Olfactory
2858 Must Olfactory
2201 Old woman smell Olfactory

For when Faulkner texts make explicit reference to the smell of elderly (old) women - "faint odor of old maidens" in "Go Down, Moses," the "rank smell of female old flesh" in "Absalom," etc. (Question: Does Faulkner ever reference the smell of old MEN?) JBP

3682 Oversweet organic Olfactory

Honeysuckle, but also the blooms from the "heaven tree" in Sanctuary, etc.

2932 Perfume smell Olfactory
3211 Pipe smoke Olfactory
2481 Rain Olfactory
3956 Sexual smells Olfactory
3398 Shaving lotion Olfactory
4450 Smelling black Olfactory
2240 Smelling death Olfactory
2930 Smelling trees Olfactory
3575 Smelling water Olfactory
4540 Smoke Olfactory
3399 Starch Olfactory
3507 Sulfur Olfactory
2817 Sweat Olfactory
3396 Tobacco Olfactory
2253 Trees Olfactory
2770 Urine Olfactory
2996 Weed Olfactory
4726 Beyond living world passim Otherworldly
3879 Earth / the world Otherworldly
3849 Hellfire Otherworldly
3946 Moon / Lunar Otherworldly
Vocabulary: Actions
Term ID Term Parentsort descending Description
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

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