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Description
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
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence
- Absence as loss
- Absence as presence
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Quest to recover
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned