Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
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
1363 Actions Perceptual Nosiness
4191 Actions Perceptual Observing
1383 Actions Perceptual Overhearing
3532 Actions Perceptual Passing from sight
1338 Actions Perceptual Professional surveillance
2176 Actions Perceptual Reading / Researching
936 Actions Perceptual Seeing
3570 Actions Perceptual Sensing
3213 Actions Perceptual Sensing the past
498 Actions Perceptual Smelling
2283 Actions Perceptual Spying

Any time a character or characters looks at someone or something while attempting to remain undetected. JB
1302 Actions Perceptual Strip searching
1300 Actions Perceptual Surveillance
3993 Actions Perceptual Sweetness
2921 Actions Perceptual Tasting
2922 Actions Perceptual Tickling
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
552 Actions Perceptual Voyeurism
1726 Actions Perceptual Watching
536 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Ethics
2402 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Evolution
3350 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Existentialism
1006 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Freedom
5559 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Freedom of choice
3520 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human experience
1159 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Human nature
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
3878 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Infinity
533 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Justice
2272 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Luck
3509 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Metaphysics
2271 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Movement
2969 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Nihilism
712 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Power of literature
3886 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Progenitive / Self-reproductive
3125 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Redemption
3902 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Reduction / summing up
3124 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Salvation
1223 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Suffering
3905 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Tedious / tedium
3832 Themes and Motifs Philosophical Unnatural / Contrary to nature
898 Actions Physical Ambush
1251 Actions Physical Apprehending
2813 Actions Physical Bathing
4855 Actions Physical Being pursued
5186 Actions Physical Breaking
1865 Actions Physical Building
1240 Actions Physical Burial
2870 Actions Physical Burning
4661 Actions Physical Camping
3930 Actions Physical Capture
1952 Actions Physical Carrying
3931 Actions Physical Chase
1059 Actions Physical Chopping wood
2755 Actions Physical Clearing land
3970 Actions Physical Climbing
3140 Actions Physical Climbing stairs
1164 Actions Physical Climbing tree
5168 Actions Physical Climbing/descending rope
5142 Actions Physical Concealing
3154 Actions Physical Confining
1118 Actions Physical Cooking
2250 Actions Physical Crawling
4727 Actions Physical Crowding
3802 Actions Physical Cuddling
1511 Actions Physical Curtsy
5135 Actions Physical Cutting
2131 Actions Physical Dancing
2477 Actions Physical Delivering
1493 Actions Physical Digging
2128 Actions Physical Discovering

For instances when a character literally discovers someone or something -- Mrs. Gant finding her daughter with a boy lying together in a blanket, for instance. Distinct from the MENTAL act of discovery (which is also a keyword in this database). -JBP
4304 Actions Physical Dragging
2727 Actions Physical Drawing
1880 Actions Physical Dreaming
1376 Actions Physical Dressing
3338 Actions Physical Driving
1867 Actions Physical Eating
2977 Actions Physical Embrace / hugging
5167 Actions Physical Emptying
3041 Actions Physical Escape from confinement
3909 Actions Physical Escaping
3778 Actions Physical Evasion
4251 Actions Physical Extinguishing fire
4607 Actions Physical Fasting
2127 Actions Physical Finding

For when the text refers to the explicit act of someone or something being found; may include things found that were not actually being searched for. (Cf. Luster's search for a quarter, and the other things he finds.) -JBP
2162 Actions Physical Freeing
2789 Actions Physical Gardening
2759 Actions Physical Getting water
1816 Actions Physical Hammering
835 Actions Physical Hanging
839 Actions Physical Hiding
1250 Actions Physical Hitting
2753 Actions Physical Holding
3329 Actions Physical Inaction / Not doing something
2159 Actions Physical Intrusion
1439 Actions Physical Jumping
1980 Actions Physical Kicking
1389 Actions Physical Kissing
3147 Actions Physical Lifting

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