Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort ascending Parent Term Description
4773 Environment Domestic Space Livestock pen
2485 Environment Olfactory Locust
2548 Environment Domestic Space Loft
1181 Environment Domestic Space Log house
2760 Environment Domestic Space Log yard
2157 Environment Place Lonelier parts of town

Term for when a text makes reference to parts of town with fewer people or streets -- outskirts, edge of town, "less frequented" (as in "Miss Zilphia Gant"), and so forth. JBP

1488 Environment Domestic Space Lot
2012 Environment Place Lot
3948 Environment Time of Year Lunar month / cycle
2555 Environment Time of Day Lunch
1199 Environment Time of Year March
2050 Environment Place Mars
1976 Environment Time of Year May
723 Environment Place McCaslin-Edmonds plantation
2037 Environment Place Medical practice

Any place where "doctoring" is practiced whether that is formal, as with Peabody, or more informal. JB

589 Environment Place Memphis
4909 Environment Atmospheric Meteor shower
5170 Environment Time of Year Mid-week
3690 Environment Time of Day Midday
614 Environment Time of Day Midnight
2153 Environment Weather Mild
4840 Environment Place Military camp
5269 Environment Olfactory Milk
4984 Environment Place Mill
5181 Environment Place Monastery
4147 Environment Time of Year Monday
5641 Environment Time of Day Monday
559 Environment Time of Day Monday morning
3710 Environment Time of Year Month of brides
1427 Environment Natural Moon
2049 Environment Place Moon
3946 Environment Otherworldly Moon / Lunar
603 Environment Atmospheric Moonlit
492 Environment Time of Day Morning
3980 Environment Natural Moss
2274 Environment Place Motordrome
3540 Environment Natural Mountains
4806 Environment Auditory Moving wagon
3541 Environment Natural Mud
2771 Environment Auditory Murmur
4481 Environment Auditory Music
2858 Environment Olfactory Must
334 Environment (First level term) Natural
2549 Environment Auditory Nature

The sounds of nature, generally on a quiet night. JB

5582 Environment Place Negro district
1503 Environment Time of Year New Year
4874 Environment Place Newspaper office
687 Environment Time of Day Night
917 Environment Atmospheric Night
5639 Environment Time of Day Nine o'clock a.m.
4184 Environment Time of Day Nine o'clock p.m.
747 Environment Time of Day Noon
1608 Environment Time of Year November
2731 Environment Time of Year October
942 Environment Place Office
2949 Environment Domestic Space Office
3058 Environment Place Official office
4944 Environment Place Okatoba
4943 Environment Place Old Jefferson
2201 Environment Olfactory Old woman smell

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

335 Environment (First level term) Olfactory
3870 Environment Time of Day One o'clock p.m.
4007 Environment Atmospheric Oppressive
3881 Environment Natural Orchard
5150 Environment Place Orphanage
336 Environment (First level term) Otherworldly
1462 Environment Domestic Space Outhouse
2543 Environment Place Outlaw country

On a number of occasions, Faulkner makes reference to stretches of outlaw country. Places where illegal and illicit practices transpire, but there is no enforcement by local or federal authority. This is particular in reference to Frenchman's Bend in the Hamlet, but also Ballenbaugh's historic emergence in the Reivers. JB

3682 Environment Olfactory Oversweet organic

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

3381 Environment Auditory Owls
3380 Environment Domestic Space Paddock
2561 Environment Place Paducah
4719 Environment Place Park
5508 Environment Public Park
1514 Environment Domestic Space Parlor
1512 Environment Domestic Space Pasture
2806 Environment Public Pasture

There is already an entry for Domestic Space -> Pasture. This refers to a pasture that is not part of a domestic space. JB

5513 Environment Place Pawn shop
5099 Environment Atmospheric Peaceful
1769 Environment Place Penitentiary
4163 Environment Weather Perfect Weather

Perfect, that is, for the context - which can either mean clear sunlight OR pitch darkness, frost or rain. Whenever the weather feels right. For the dawn of the hunt in "Race at Morning," it means "cold and bright" (297).

2932 Environment Olfactory Perfume smell
1673 Environment Public Pioneer settlement
3211 Environment Olfactory Pipe smoke
337 Environment (First level term) Place
738 Environment Place Plantation
748 Environment Domestic Space Plantation house
2306 Environment Time of Year Planting time
1290 Environment Place Playground
2016 Environment Place Pond
4524 Environment Public Poolhall
2004 Environment Place Poorhouse
920 Environment Domestic Space Porch
3405 Environment Public Post office
1714 Environment Auditory Postal horn
2139 Environment Place Power Plant
636 Environment Time of Day Pre-dawn
3006 Environment Natural Prehistoric forces
338 Environment (First level term) Public
1053 Environment Time of Year Quail season

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