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Term IDsort descending Vocabulary Parent Term Description
607 Environment Olfactory Decay
608 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Simile
609 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Door
610 Relationships Intergenerational Female
611 Environment Time of Year Summer
612 Actions Interaction, Social Elopement
613 Aesthetics Narrative Indeterminacy
614 Environment Time of Day Midnight
615 Cultural Issues Race Hierarchical
616 Cultural Issues War Wound
617 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Absence as disguise

This was created to note Flem Snopes' calculated absence during the horse auction, the way he has orchestrated it from behind the scene. I'm not sure this occurs with anyone but Flem, but it occurs multiple times in his case. SR

618 Themes and Motifs Animals Dogs
619 Actions Interaction, Social Shopping
620 Relationships Familial Sibling
621 Cultural Issues Clothes Women
622 Aesthetics Diction Western vernacular
623 Actions Moral Prohibiting

Here in the general sense of interdiction, forbidding, proscribing - rather than "prohibition," i.e. outlawing alcohol. JW

624 Cultural Issues Class Middle
625 Relationships Marital Abusive
626 Themes and Motifs Community African-American
627 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Water
628 Relationships Marital Elopement
629 Themes and Motifs Body Face
630 Actions Physical Washing clothes
631 Themes and Motifs Body Appearance-plain
632 Actions Verbal Command
633 Themes and Motifs Time Watch
634 Actions Interaction, Social Auction
635 Cultural Issues Class Ambition
636 Environment Time of Day Pre-dawn
637 Actions Verbal Taunt
638 Cultural Issues Gender Men vs women
639 Cultural Issues Gender Femininity
640 Themes and Motifs Memory Remembering passim
641 Aesthetics Style Neologism
642 Themes and Motifs Objects Junk
643 Cultural Issues Clothes Rural poverty
644 Cultural Issues Class Class consciousness
645 Themes and Motifs Objects Furniture
646 Themes and Motifs Objects Clock
647 Themes and Motifs Character Innocence
648 Actions Moral Legal surrender
649 Actions Moral Confession
650 Cultural Issues Age Youth
651 Actions Bodily Crying
652 Cultural Issues Law Justice of the Peace
653 Themes and Motifs Body Thinness
654 Environment Domestic Space Gender stereotype
655 Environment Place Crime scene
656 Relationships Familial Mother-son
657 Actions Interaction, Social Peer group
658 Actions Work Washing clothes
659 Actions Violent Hitting
660 Cultural Issues Law Evidence
661 Themes and Motifs Animals Mules
662 Cultural Issues Gender Chivalry
663 Actions Bodily Sleeping
664 Relationships Social Snobbery
665 Cultural Issues Violence Domestic
666 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Shadow
667 Cultural Issues Mass Media Newspaper
668 Aesthetics Narrative Temporal projection

When the narrative gets ahead of itself, for example in "Race at Morning" Event 305.1 begins "Then we seen him for the first time," but that does not actually happen until two Events later, 305.3, "and then suddenly . . . the buck hisself" (305). It doesn't matter whether the narrative is looking forward a dozen sentences or a hundred pages, whenever it explicitly anticipates something that it won't actually depict until a later Event, it's "Temporal projection." SR

669 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding license
670 Themes and Motifs Objects Car
671 Actions Verbal Gossip
672 Actions Violent Entry
673 Cultural Issues Labor Domestic
674 Relationships Marital Husband-wife
675 Relationships Hierarchical Employer-employee
676 Themes and Motifs Community Social life
677 Actions Emotional Nurturing
678 Relationships Hierarchical Child as authority
679 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Mask
680 Themes and Motifs Body Blood
681 Cultural Issues Law Inheritance
682 Aesthetics Figures of Speech Simile-mask
683 Themes and Motifs Values Independence
684 Themes and Motifs Values Courage
685 Actions Economic Impounding
686 Actions Economic Paying
687 Environment Time of Day Night
688 Environment Domestic Space Supper table
689 Actions Perceptual Looking
690 Aesthetics Diction African American vernacular dialect
691 Environment Public Road
692 Environment (First level term) Corn-planting time
693 Environment Time of Year Corn planting time
694 Themes and Motifs Animals Whippoorwills
695 Environment Place Cottonfield
696 Actions Economic Share-cropping|Tenantry

There are significant differences between "share-cropping" and "tenant farming" in reality. "Tenants" typically furnished their own farming tools and livestock, and had at least a measure of control over what crops they planted on land they rented from a landlord; "share-croppers" typically only contributed their own labor, with the landlord dictating what they would raise and providing the animals and tools they used. But in his fiction Faulkner does not maintain this distinction, using the terms as essentially synonymous. SR

697 Actions Perceptual Listening
698 Environment Time of Day Dawn
699 Environment Natural Delta
700 Relationships Commercial Rivalry
702 Environment Weather Rain
704 Actions Movement Walking
705 Aesthetics Diction Racist term
706 Environment Time of Day Supper
707 Themes and Motifs Absence/Loss Renewal
708 Cultural Issues Mass Media Radio

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