Lexicon
a small concordance
These are the words I keep reaching for. Each one carries a specific sense across the body of work that the dictionary entry doesn’t quite capture — not jargon, but terms-of-art that recur because the thinking recurs. The concordance puts the recurrences next to each other so the sense is visible from the usage.
Each term page has a brief gloss and every sentence in the essays where the word appears. The body of work is grep-able; this page surfaces what falls out. Seventeen terms. 421 occurrences across the corpus.
- anchor
- anti-join
- calcify
- canon
- claim
- cold-read
- drift
- frame
- gate
- instance
- load-bearing
- register
- substrate
- surface
- texture
- verify
- witness
If a recurring word is missing, that’s a gap in the index, not in the corpus. Tell me which one.