As for the retro-classic side of Citi Field, the Mets, having no ancient ballpark of their own to evoke, have appropriated someone else's.
Really, the rapture that the series evokes has little specifically to do with Europe.
Dynastic privilege – and the sense of entitlement that it evokes – has elicited mixed feelings among Americans all the way back to the founding of the republic.
The immediate, unequivocal, wave of love Ahmed evoked has rekindled my flagging faith in humanity.
The sensation that needling (true or placebo) evokes has been shown to be a significant correlate of acupuncture-induced analgesia (this has been a finding from both clinical and experimental studies).
Even before the Internet levelled the world of libidinal gazing, the titillation that Hefner's imagery evoked had already mostly vanished.
By the early 70s, though, their aura – and the optimism their music evoked – had faded, and pop struggled to define itself.
In the half century that separates the two Broadway productions, "Waiting for Godot" has gone from ridicule to required reading, and the clowns the play evokes have become a nearly extinct species.
This landscape imagery and the memories it evokes have allowed for the creation of religious community in the context of the hardships, contestations and dispossessions of apartheid rule, and more recently in the uncertainties of the post-apartheid era.
Looking back, I think it takes time because the new sensitivities this worldview evokes have to pass from thinking into feeling and then into physical sensations themselves.
