Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
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
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
630 Actions Physical Washing clothes
835 Actions Physical Hanging
839 Actions Physical Hiding
869 Actions Physical Transporting
898 Actions Physical Ambush
938 Actions Physical Pursuit
1059 Actions Physical Chopping wood
1118 Actions Physical Cooking
1164 Actions Physical Climbing tree
1240 Actions Physical Burial
1250 Actions Physical Hitting
1251 Actions Physical Apprehending
1316 Actions Physical Searching
1367 Actions Physical Undressing
1376 Actions Physical Dressing
1389 Actions Physical Kissing
1411 Actions Physical Protection
1413 Actions Physical Stalking
1438 Actions Physical Probing
1439 Actions Physical Jumping
1443 Actions Physical Trembling
1493 Actions Physical Digging
1510 Actions Physical Reading
1511 Actions Physical Curtsy
1816 Actions Physical Hammering
1819 Actions Physical Repair
1861 Actions Physical Throwing
1862 Actions Physical Running
1865 Actions Physical Building
1867 Actions Physical Eating
1870 Actions Physical Riding
1879 Actions Physical Waiting
1880 Actions Physical Dreaming
1952 Actions Physical Carrying
1970 Actions Physical Restraining
1980 Actions Physical Kicking
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
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
2131 Actions Physical Dancing
2159 Actions Physical Intrusion
2162 Actions Physical Freeing
2250 Actions Physical Crawling
2463 Actions Physical Race
2477 Actions Physical Delivering
2479 Actions Physical Taking
2687 Actions Physical Mimicking
2726 Actions Physical new item
2727 Actions Physical Drawing
2733 Actions Physical Praying
2735 Actions Physical Walking
2753 Actions Physical Holding
2755 Actions Physical Clearing land
2757 Actions Physical Sleeping
2759 Actions Physical Getting water
2761 Actions Physical Sawing
2783 Actions Physical Sitting
2789 Actions Physical Gardening
2813 Actions Physical Bathing
2870 Actions Physical Burning
2918 Actions Physical Obeying / obedience
2976 Actions Physical Touching

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