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When a narrator retrospectively imagines what they could have or wished they had said in a particular conversation. BR

When a character imitates or approximates the dialect of another, whose dialect they themselves do not use. BR

To indicate when slaves began their lives (in either freedom or slavery) outside the U.S. The most obvious example are the slaves Sutpen brings with him from the Caribbean. SR

This entry can refer both to, and beyond, the physiological to denote the inability to achieve an aim, dream or ambition. In Absalom 149.4, Sutpen provides an example; he still has the same ruthless ambition, but can no longer realize it, reduced as he is to tending his store and drinking with Wash Jones. JC

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

Created to capture the pervasive patterns of difference caused by race - specifically, that the white hunters in "Race at Morning" carry good guns while Simon carries an old "britchloader slung on a piece of plow line" (298). Could also be used to capture what Bayard calls the "arrangements" between him and Ringo, etc. SR

Whenever there is an arrangement between two or multiple parties that is not strictly legal, but is adhered to as law. For example, Judge Steven's arrangement with Maury Priest over the actions of Ludus and Boon in the Reivers. This won't hold up in a court of law, but is adhered to by both parties. J. Burgers

Added for when hunters (or hunting dogs) are injured while hunting -- as Boon (and Lion) are. -JBP