Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort ascending Term Description
5140 Actions Physical Starting fire
5142 Actions Physical Concealing
5147 Actions Physical Whistling
5167 Actions Physical Emptying
5168 Actions Physical Climbing/descending rope
5180 Actions Physical Struggling
5186 Actions Physical Breaking
5276 Actions Physical Questing
5628 Actions Physical Wrestling
5703 Actions Physical Lying down
533 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Justice
536 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Ethics
712 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Power of literature
1006 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Freedom
1159 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human nature
1223 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Suffering
2271 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Movement
2272 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Luck
2402 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Evolution
2969 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Nihilism
3124 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Salvation
3125 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Redemption
3350 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Existentialism
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
3520 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human experience
3832 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Unnatural / Contrary to nature
3878 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Infinity
3886 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Progenitive / Self-reproductive
3902 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Reduction / summing up
3905 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Tedious / tedium
4258 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Individualism

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 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Freedom of choice
498 Actions Perceptual Smelling
552 Actions Perceptual Voyeurism
689 Actions Perceptual Looking
697 Actions Perceptual Listening
936 Actions Perceptual Seeing
1299 Actions Perceptual Investigating
1300 Actions Perceptual Surveillance
1302 Actions Perceptual Strip searching
1338 Actions Perceptual Professional surveillance
1363 Actions Perceptual Nosiness
1383 Actions Perceptual Overhearing
1563 Actions Perceptual Misreading
1572 Actions Perceptual Ambiguity
1726 Actions Perceptual Watching
1944 Actions Perceptual Eavesdropping
2067 Actions Perceptual Unknowable

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 Actions Perceptual Reading / Researching
2283 Actions Perceptual Spying

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB
2921 Actions Perceptual Tasting
2922 Actions Perceptual Tickling
3213 Actions Perceptual Sensing the past
3497 Actions Perceptual Looking away
3532 Actions Perceptual Passing from sight
3570 Actions Perceptual Sensing
3835 Actions Perceptual Experiencing second-hand / vicariously
3901 Actions Perceptual Familiarity
3955 Actions Perceptual Looking back
3993 Actions Perceptual Sweetness
4078 Actions Perceptual Blurring
4160 Actions Perceptual Moment of vision

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 Actions Perceptual Observing
4200 Actions Perceptual Hearing
4827 Actions Perceptual Interpreting tracks
5102 Actions Perceptual Dowsing
1303 Themes and Motifs Past Parental
1322 Themes and Motifs Past Past in present
1555 Themes and Motifs Past Grander than present
1627 Themes and Motifs Past Old days
1814 Themes and Motifs Past Recent 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 Themes and Motifs Past Innocence
2418 Themes and Motifs Past Yoknapatawpha founders
2857 Themes and Motifs Past Family history
2862 Themes and Motifs Past Relics
3008 Themes and Motifs Past Prehistory
3013 Themes and Motifs Past Repetition
3059 Themes and Motifs Past As explanatory
3093 Themes and Motifs Past Freedom from it
3174 Themes and Motifs Past Discovering it
3193 Themes and Motifs Past And monuments
3455 Themes and Motifs Past Anxiety about|Resistance to change
3560 Themes and Motifs Past Personal past
4206 Themes and Motifs Past Past vs present
4284 Themes and Motifs Past Traumatic
4671 Themes and Motifs Past Quest to recover
4894 Themes and Motifs Past Historical wrong
3849 Environment Otherworldly Hellfire
3879 Environment Otherworldly Earth / the world
3946 Environment Otherworldly Moon / Lunar
4726 Environment Otherworldly Beyond living world passim
489 Environment Olfactory Food
607 Environment Olfactory Decay
1102 Environment Olfactory Flowers
1329 Environment Olfactory Evoking memory
2063 Environment Olfactory Gasoline
2135 Environment Olfactory Bad smell
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
2240 Environment Olfactory Smelling death
2253 Environment Olfactory Trees

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