Index to the Topical Guide
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Index to the Topical Guide
Mark Dorset
I have in mind two sorts of cross reference — one concerned with words and the other with things. . . .
Denis Diderot, Encyclopedia
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Adaptation: Novel to Screen TG 518
Acting: Playing the Fool, Playing the King TG 153
Actions, Consequences of One’s: Unwelcome: Crapulence TG 555
Adventures, Provisions for TG 51
Advertising: Types of Appeal TG 373; “The Grass Is Greener,” Exoticism TG 441, TG 442; Appeal to Desire to Enhance One’s Self-Image TG 476, TG 484; Appeal to Sensual Pleasure TG 476; Branding TG 505; Appeal to Naïveté, Wishful Thinking, Good Works, Noble Efforts TG 547
Advice, Bad TG 129, Dangerous TG 545
Aesthetics: TG 462; Aesthetic Choices TG 49; Aesthetics; Style TG 82, TG 461
Aging; Youth and Age; Old People TG 395, TG 422
Allusion; Quotation TG 140, TG 455, TG 462, TG 502, TG 506, TG 532, TG 559, TG 583
Alter Ego TG 508
Annotation, Annotators TG 13; Annotator: Trials and Tribulations of TG 449
Anonymity, Being “No One”: Advantages of TG 484
Anticipation, Disappointment TG 98; Anticipation; Suspense; Impatience TG 160, TG 574
Anxiety for the Future TG 30, TG 126; Anxiety for the Unknown TG 126
Apartment Life: TG 432
Arcadia, Eden TG 40; Arcadia; Shangri-La; Fantasy Land; Raratonga TG 46; Idyllic Landscapes, Arcadia, Shangri-La, Beauty Spots TG 58
Art, Play TG 5; Paint-by-Numbers TG 107, TG 108; Necessity of Transformation in TG 110; Doodling TG 165; Art Materials: Masonite TG 167; Art and Craft and Real Life TG 385; Art: Literature: Responding to: Sharing the Experience TG 367; Conceptual TG 482; Commodification of TG 482
Artist, Work, and Audience TG 393; Art: Framing as an Element of TG 467
Attention, Focusing: TG 91; TG 528
Audacity or Pluck Overcoming Despair or Fear (or Prudence or Timidity) TG 109
Audio Equipment: “Unbreakable” Records TG 115
Author as God or Magician or Puppeteer TG 17, TG 94, TG 117; Identification of Author with Reader TG 502
Babbington TG 5; Babbington: Bolotomy Bay TG 23; Babbington: History of TG 47; Babbington: Landmarks in TG 47
Barber, Matthew TG 98
Bastardy (“Illegitimacy”) TG 145
Beaker, Dudley TG 12
Birthdays TG 121
Bivalves: Reference Works TG 33
Bolotomy River: Estuarial Stretch of the TG 29, TG 42
Books, Real and Fictional TG 99; Books: Covers TG 156
Bouzouki TG 103
Building Materials: Masonite TG 167, Concrete Reinforcing Bar (“Rebar”) TG 557
Business: Competition Therein TG 376
Cars: Studebakers, Chryslers TG 57; Limousines TG 439
Castration Anxiety TG 42
Chance (see also Coincidence; Fate; Luck) TG 9; TG 162, TG 570
Characters and Characterization TG 538, TG 540, TG 544, TG 548
Character as Uncontrollable Creation TG 117
Character Traits: Artless Sincerity versus Malicious Duplicity TG 143; Character Traits: False Modesty, Narcissism, Pugnacity TG 144
Charlatanism TG 482
Childhood TG 106; Childhood: Rewards and Punishments TG 124
Children and Adults TG 36
Clam Bar Cuisine (A Gallery) TG 26
Clamboats of Babbington, Some TG 31; Clamboats: Morphology and Aesthetics of TG 49
Clamdiggers TG 21
Clamming TG 21; Clamming: Methods of TG 21
Clams TG 21; Clams: Cherrystone TG 32; Clams: Fried TG 35, TG 38; Clams: Littleneck TG 32; Clams: Seed TG 32; Clams: Antigona lamellaris and Tapes literatus TG 46; Clams: Babbington Clam Council, The TG 5; Clams: Babbington Clam, the packing plant TG 3; Clams: Clamshell Driveways TG 3
Classical Statuary, Replicas of TG 103
Cliffhangers TG 84; Cliffhanger, Frustration TG 160
Clothing TG 486; Men’s Fashions: Armani, 1980s TG 531
Clowns and Clownish Behavior TG 39, TG 553
Coincidence (see also Chance; Fate; Luck) TG 9; Coincidence; Chance; Fate; Luck TG 13
Communication: Signal and Noise TG 67; Communication: Nonverbal: Smoking TG 536
Consequences, Unintended TG 152
Contentment: Full Stomach as a Source of, Clear Conscience as a Source of TG 472
Contests; Competitions TG 158; Contests and Competitions: Techniques for Winning TG 159
Cover Illustrations TG 18, TG 61, TG 93, TG 562
Critics and Criticism TG 454
Curiosity TG 166
Cynics, Cynicism TG 7
Dark-Haired Girl, The TG 41
David Copperfield TG 1
Death TG 48; Attitudes Toward TG 523; Memento Mori TG 523
Deception TG 91, TG 482
Decisions: The Decision Process TG 151
Dialect, Slang, Idiolect, Shibboleths TG 11
Dickens TG 1
Disappointment TG 87, TG 113; Anticipation, Disappointment TG 98
Disappointment Island TG 46
Disease and Illness: Childhood Diseases: Chicken Pox TG 115
Distinction or Status: Desire for TG 104
Dorset, Mark TG 1
Dreams: Erotic, Heterosexual, Adolescent, Male TG 34
Drinking: Cocktails, Cocktail Shakers TG 57; Drinking; Smoking TG 15; Cocktails, Old Fashioned TG 132; Cocktails: The Shirley Temple TG 150; Cocktails: The Martini TG 415, TG 416; Cocktails, Real and Fictional TG 437; Cocktails: Black Russian TG 518
Dust TG 79
Editing, Misprints, Typos TG 6
Education: Early Childhood, Benefits of TG 103; Childhood Education: Unintended Consequences of TG 112; Education: Continuing: Learning a Foreign Language TG 396; Education: Equipment for: Blackboards (Chalkboards) TG 578
Ego, Egoism, Egotism TG 47, TG 75, TG 438
Embarrassment TG 149; TG 150; Embarrassment, Humiliation, Losing Face TG 166, TG 438; TG 454
Endurance, Survival TG 527
Emotions, Responses to: Crying TG 496; Anger TG 558
Engineering: Catenary Arc, Curve, and Arch TG 461
Erotic Fantasies (Male, Heterosexual, Adolescent and Beyond): Bathing; Wishful Thinking TG 66
Escape TG 423
Eureka Moments TG 39; TG 499
Euthanasia TG 116
Events: Real: Sputnik TG 447
Evil TG 489
Experience: Real, Fictional, Vicarious, Shared TG 81; Immediate Data of TG 583
Experiences: Unforgettable, Unusual, Unlikely TG 449
Fact and Fiction TG 30
Falling: Not Quite Falling TG 53; Falling, Stumbling, Tripping TG 29
False Modesty, Self-Deprecation TG 138
Fame, Desire for Enduring TG 96; Yearning for Lasting TG 100
Fantasy Land; Rarotonga; Arcadia; Shangri-La TG 46
Fashion TG 486; Fashion Statement, Muff as TG 129
Fate (see also Coincidence; Chance; Luck) TG 9
Faux Pas TG 39; TG 150
Fecklessness TG 28
Flattery TG 148
Flowers TG 135
Fog, Literal and Metaphorical TG 50 (Free Sample)
Folly TG 28, TG 545
Food, Appetite for TG 56; Food, Chicken, Chicken versus Clams TG 44; Food: as Significant Element of a Remembered Incident and Its Literary Reproduction TG 34; Salami TG 135; Food: Preferences: Chicken versus Clams TG 155; Food: In Popular Culture TG 155; Food: International Cuisines in Translation: Chinese: Chow Mein TG 400; Food: Kartoffelklösse TG 367; Food: Aïoli, Chocolate Decadence TG 424; Food: Artificial TG 460; Cooking TG 463; Food and Drink: Kir Royale, Fusilli Bolognese TG 469; Cultural Differences in Styles, Methods, and Etiquette of Eating TG 492; “Leftovers” TG 494; Swiss: Züri Gschnätzlets TG 513; Fictional: Bouillabaisse Stir-Fry TG 539; Nachos TG 550
Foreshadowing TG 63; TG 84; TG 127; TG 128; TG 140; TG 142; TG 147; TG 459; TG 543
Form TG 467
Forbidden Fruit: Its Allure TG 501
Fortune Cookie Wisdom TG 37; TG 74; TG 109; TG 126; TG 168; TG 472
Fragility, Vulnerability TG 116
Friends, Imaginary TG 27; Friends, Real TG 27; Friendship TG 27; Friendship; Friends, Imaginary TG 38
Future, the: Expectations for TG 458; Pessimism Regarding TG 485; Cone Model of TG 485
Gadgets, Electronic TG 83; TG 84; TG 433; Car Phone TG 439; Kitchen TG 457; Personal Computers TG 466; Hyperlinks and Hypertext and Hypercard TG 466; Mechanical: Compressed Earth Blocks Machine TG 470, Orrery TG 571; Fantastical, Useless, Self-Destructive TG 567
Games and Puzzles TG 379
Genres: Movie Musical, Film Noir TG 429
Geography: Iowa TG 154; Geographical Features: Drumlin TG 568
Gifts: Hidden Agendas Behind Some TG 115
Glynn, Margot and Martha TG 29
God, the Gods, Fate, the Fates: Callousness and Cruelty of TG 118; Rebellion Against TG 118
Going Nowhere TG 41
Good Works, Noble Efforts TG 445; TG 547
Grammar and Usage: Correspond to, Correspond with TG 6
Happiness TG 94
Hats: Man in a Derby or Bowler Hat TG 108
Hobbies: Knitting, Jewelry-Making TG 396
Hobbyhorses; Chicken Fanciers TG 157
Hope TG 574; Hopes and Fears TG 63; Hope versus Despair (or Fear) TG 109
History: Nature of, Alternative Versions of, Distortions of, Personal Version of TG 35
Humiliation TG 527
Humor: Shaggy Dog Story: The Three Rabbits TG 150; Pun: Extended or Epic Pun TG 150; Humor: “A Sense of Humor”: Value of TG 413; Humor: the Knack for Creating; Humorous: the Knack for Being; Eutrapelia TG 468; Parody TG 492
Ideas: Half-Baked, Borrowed, Stolen, French TG 487
Idleness, Daydreaming, Dolce far Niente TG 41
Imagination TG 62; Imagination, Improvisation TG 102; Imagination TG 113
Immortality TG 116
Impractical Craftsman TG 44, TG 135, TG 569
Inadequacy, Feelings of TG 149
Indecision, “Being of Two Minds” TG 522
Infinity TG 581
Insecurity TG 124
“Inspiration” TG 125, TG 447, TG 528, TG 570; and Transformation TG 78
Institutions: Fictional: National Preparedness Foundation, New Mexico College of Agriculture, Technology, and Pharmacy TG 447
Institutions: Real: National Science Foundation, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology TG 447; The Peace Corps TG 470
Instrument of Restraint or Torture, Muff as TG 129
Intelligence, Assessing TG 119
Keeping One’s Mouth Shut, The Wisdom of TG 139
Kitsch TG 108
Language TG 11; Dialect, Slang, Idiolect, Shibboleths, Jargon TG 137; Slang, Insults, Terms of Abuse TG 140; Slang TG 169; Languages: Learning and Translating TG 393; Idiolect, Private Meanings and References, Code Words TG 373; Idioms: Tug the (One’s) Forelock TG 459; Technical, Academic, Gibberish TG 492; Language in Translation: Russian to English TG 495
Laughter TG 29; Laughter and Ridicule: Attitudes Underlying TG 494
Leroy Lager TG 25
L’Esprit de L’Escalier TG 423
Letters, Correspondence, Erotic Element of TG 6
Life: Metaphors and Similes for TG 40, TG 55, TG 60; Phases of TG 89; Life and Death TG 92; Yearning for Another, Different, Better TG 100, TG 104; Life: Its Vicissitudes TG 146; Life Imitates Art (More or Less) TG 153; Stages of: Puberty TG 164; Life: The Nature of It, and Ways One Might Live One’s TG 382; Life: Its Vicissitudes, Its Shames and Humiliations, Its Follies, Its Burden of Pain, Care, and Misery TG 376; Attitudes Toward TG 523; Carpe Diem TG 523
Life Lessons: Disillusionment, or the Ripping of Scales from One’s Eyes, Steps along the way to the Loss of Innocence, the School of Hard Knocks TG 553
Lighten the Load, Jettison, Jetsam TG 58
Literature and Art: Responding to, Engaging with, Interpreting TG 101, TG 506; Literature, Juvenile: Primers TG 111; Literature: Children’s TG 115; Literature, Drama, Theater: King Lear TG 134; Literature: Bowdlerization of, Simplification of, Trivialization of, Infantilization of TG 136, TG 506; Literature: Interpretation of TG 137; Literature: Books: Moby-Dick TG 48; Literature: Drama: King Lear TG 139; Lines Consisting of a Single Word Repeated Five Times TG 147; Literature: Responding to: Sharing the Experience TG 367
Lodkochnikov, Ariane TG 43
Logophilia TG 11
Loneliness TG 8
Love, the Things we Do for: TG 77; TG 90; Love: Its Nature TG 158; Love: Varieties of TG 158; Love: Desperate Measures in the Pursuit of: Pleading TG 542
Luck (see also Coincidence; Chance; Fate) TG 9
Lying and Truth-Telling TG 154, TG 438
Madness, Senility, Dementia TG 146; Madness, Wisdom TG 147
Malfeasance, Corporate TG 149
Marketing: Persuasion TG 415; Manipulation and Persuasion TG 138; Slogans and Sloganeering TG 444; “Guerrilla” TG 560
Mathematics: Multiplication Table (“Times Table”) TG 131; Finger-Counting, Dactylonomy TG 133
Meaning TG 11
Melancholy TG 114
Memoirs: Memories, Inventions, Memoirs with Inventions, Sawdust TG 24; Motives for: L’Esprit de L’Escalier TG 73
Memory TG 57, TG 125, TG 574, TG 583; Memory, Faulty: Causes of, Results of TG 34, TG 133; Memory, Remembering, Forgetting, and the Search for Lost Time TG 22; Memory, Faulty, Causes of Distortion in TG 97; Memories: Relationships Among; Relationships to Present Perceptions TG 463
Mercenaria mercenaria, Sizes of TG 32; Mercenaria mercenaria, Uses of TG 32
Metaphor, Extended TG 55
Mind of the Author TG 62
Misery TG 94, TG 95
Misinformation TG 510
Misunderstanding TG 574
Moonlight TG 39; Moon: Daytime Illusion of Transparency TG 79
Motivation: Revenge TG 558
Music: Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute” TG 53; Records; Audio Equipment TG 12; Jazz: Coleman Hawkins: “Body and Soul” TG 252; Rock ’n’ Roll TG 457; Music Appreciation TG 458; Jazz TG 513; Lyrics TG 513; For the Reservations Recommended Soundtrack Album TG 514, TG 520, TG 559
Myths and Hoaxes TG 138
Naïveté TG 547, Pretense of Sophistication TG 169
Name, What’s in a TG 38, TG 43, TG 96, TG 450, TG 483, TG 505; Names, Pronunciation of TG 44; Names and Naming: Place-Names TG 54; Names, Pronunciation of TG 414
Nature: Mysteries of, Beauties of, Misperceptions of TG 60; Wonders of: The Night Sky TG 580
Novelty: As a Source of Pleasure TG 502
Obligations: Deadlines TG 565
Otherness: Its Allure TG 501
Overconfidence, Overreaching TG 87
Painting TG 36
Paradoxes TG 86
Parallel Passages; Parallel Experiences TG 52
Pelecypodophobia TG 33
Periodical Publishing: “Niche” Publications: The Whole Earth Catalog TG 399
Permeable Boundary Between Reality and Fiction TG 117
Persistence TG 28; TG 84; TG 89; Work, Persistence, Endurance, Survival, Humiliation TG 527
Personal History TG 1
Personages, Historical: Busby Berkeley TG 429, W. C. Fields TG 456, Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower TG 546, Miss Rheingold TG 565
Personality Characteristics and Emotional Stability, Assessing TG 119; Personality Characteristics and Emotional States, Representing TG 530; Personality Characteristics and Emotional States, Assessing TG 530; Loss of Self-control TG 558
Personality Traits, Distinctive TG 103; TG 427; “Staying Put” versus “Moving On” TG 579
Personas, Façades, Masks, “Others” TG 8
Persuasion, Techniques of: “You Deserve to Win” TG 545
Philosophical Concepts: The Harmony of the Spheres TG 92; Das Ding an Sich TG 570
Physical Phenomena: Waves TG 534
Photography TG 36; TG 110; TG 124
Places, Real and Fictional TG 64; New Hampshire TG 465
Plans and Schemes TG 44
Plagiarism TG 149, TG 560
Plastic: Bakelite TG 124
Popular Misconceptions: “Air Pocket” TG 401
Population Pressure: Effects of TG 162, TG 566
Pratfalls TG 39
Prefaces TG 2
Presentation of the Self (see Self-Presentation)
Pride TG 104; Pride; Tribalism; Resentment of the “Other” TG 157
Projects, Practical and Impractical TG 367, TG 569; Ideal or Real TG 443
Props TG 14
Proxemics: Personal Space TG 515
Pseudonyms, Aliases, Disguises TG 4; TG 454
Pursuit of the Past TG 30
Quotation: Misquotation TG 448; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura TG 472; Movie Lines: “What a Dump” TG 474
Radio TG 64; Shortwave TG 88; Tuning TG 91
Rarotonga; Arcadia; Shangri-La; Fantasy Land TG 46
Reading and Readers TG 98; TG 99; Reading: Learning to Read TG 111; Identification of Author with Reader TG 502
Realism in the Service of Romance (that is, Fiction) TG 110
Reality, Real and Fictional TG 27, TG 62, TG 64, TG 76, TG 78, TG 85, TG 127, TG 147, TG 155, TG 488; Real Objects in Fiction TG 132; Reality: Perception of TG 426
Reference: Internal TG 560
Relationships: Conditional TG 163
Reminiscing: As Shared Experience (“Do You Remember?”) TG 449
Repetition: Dispiriting Tedium of Versus Vivifying Shock of Novelty TG 63
Revenge: TG 454
Roles and Casting (in Theater and Life): Traditional and Nontraditional TG 151
Potential TG 63
Reason versus Passion; Lust; Desire; Acquisitiveness TG 65
Repetition: Comforting Familiarity of Versus Troubling Turbulence of Novelty TG 63
Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address or Personal Address TG 397
Rivers: Literal and Metaphorical TG 50 (Free Sample); Metaphorical Uses of TG 55
Rowboat, Drifting in, as Metaphor for Existential Crisis TG 112, TG 118, TG 119, TG 448; TG 501
Salesmanship TG 75; Salesmanship; Persuasion, The Art of: Appeal to Ego or Pride TG 77
Satire: Its Targets’ Blindness to It TG 420
Scandal TG 149
Schemes and Dreams; Follies TG 41
School TG 103; TG 107; TG 127; School; Education: Rote Learning, Memorization TG 131; School: Tests: Strategies for Preparing for: “Study Buddies” TG 165; Extraordinary Teachers TG 583
Science: Big Questions TG 583
Security Blanket, Muff as TG 129; Security Blanket, Comfort Object, “Lovey” TG 130
Segregation, Racial TG 577
Self-Deprecation TG 39
Self-Presentation (or Presentation of the Self) TG 427, TG 508; Voice of Reason, Man of Action, Madman, the Engagé and the Dégagé TG 430; Altruist TG 443; Devil-May-Care Bon-Vivants, Self-Denying Elder, and Outspoken Rebel TG 446; Self-Sacrifice versus Self-Indulgence TG 522; Self-Congratulation TG 522; Self: Re-invention or Renovation TG 529
Self-Reference TG 117
Sensory Perception: Smell TG 426
Sentimentalists, Sentimentalism TG 7
Setting: Dark, Secluded, Dangerous TG 555
Sexual Euphemism, Muff as TG 129
Sexual Fantasies, Male, Heterosexual, Adolescent and Beyond: Miss Clam Fest TG 53; Nymphs; Myths: Hylas; Dark-Haired Girl, the TG 59; Déjeuner sur l’Herbe TG 428
Sexual Imagery: Plants Perceived as TG 417; Sex Manuals: The Kama Sutra TG 469
Shangri-La; Fantasy Land; Rarotonga; Arcadia TG 46
Simulacra, Miniature; Scale Models TG 367
Signs and Signage: TG 432
Sinking, as a Metaphor: TG 499
Sins: Seven Deadly: Gluttony TG 550
Skills: Following Instructions TG 161
Small’s Island and Small’s Hotel TG 3
Smell; Odor; Aroma; Scent TG 135
Smoking: Cigarettes: Real Brands: Kool TG 373
Sophistication: Youthful Efforts to Acquire It TG 416; Sophistication: Misguided Efforts to Acquire It TG 420
Sources and Influences TG 45
Sports: Skiing TG 465
Studebakers, TG 12, TG 132
Studebakers: Babbington Studebaker TG 3
Style: Flooring TG 141; Style and Attitude TG 511
Suckers and Saps: TG 553
Survival at Work, Humiliation TG 527
Sunset TG 397
Tales: Folktales, Fairy Tales, Fables TG 104; Tall Tales and True TG 46; Grim Elements of TG 105
Talking to Oneself (“Self-Talk”) TG 511
Terror, Induced by Fiction TG 64
Test and Testing TG 457
Things Undone TG 44
Thinking: Focusing the Attention TG 132; TG 528
Time: Discrete (Granular) or Continuous (Smooth)? TG 87
Titles TG 1; TG 96
Toastedness: Discrete or Continuous? TG 87
Tools: Carpenter’s Pencil: TG 80
Toys: Models: Ship Models TG 36; Toys and Games TG 166; War Toys TG 436; Sand-Brick Maker TG 470
Traits, Generational Persistence of TG 37; Traits, of Character, of Personality TG 37; Traits, of Character, of Personality: Persistence TG 168
Transitory Nature of Things (“All Things Must Pass” or “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow”) TG 435
Travel: Road Trip USA TG 390
Universe, The: Bounded (Closed, Finite) or Unbounded (Open, Infinite)? TG 581
Vanity, Self-Image, Self-Confidence TG 149
Vanity of Human Wishes, The TG 104
Water TG 39
Weather: Wind TG 453
White, Chester “Porky”; Kap’n Klam TG 12
Wishful Thinking TG 43; TG 91; TG 547
Words TG 11; Watchwords, Mottoes, Words of Wisdom, Words to Live by, Words to the Wise TG 370; Meaning TG 510; Word Choice: Accuracy, Le Mot Juste TG 510; Misnomers TG 513
World Views, Mistaken TG 92
Work, Labor TG 5; Endless Tasks TG 86; Tasks, Sisyphean TG 89; Day Jobs; Working at Cross-Purposes TG 120; Educational Publishing TG 111; Work versus Play TG 367; Work as a Stultifying Waste of Time TG 485; Work, Persistence, Endurance, Survival, Humiliation TG 527
Writer at Work, The TG 19
Writers and Readers TG 99
Writing: Drafting TG 421; Revision: rewriting, revising, rethinking, renovating TG 10, TG 421; Writing (and Drawing): Drafting, Writing (and Drawing): Revising TG 421; Writing on Walls (Graffiti, Messages, Art) TG 479
Yes and No TG 16
Youth and Age TG 36