He remembers of those six years what any boy would remember of his first six years: places, sounds, tastes, affections.
Aristotle had said, similarly, that spoken sounds symbolize "affections of the soul".
Eventually, as the 13 songs (in under 32 minutes) start to add up, Ms. Cosentino's pledges of love — along with scattered details about her man's indifference — start to sound less like affection than like self-absorbed, nearly deranged obsession: "All I do is think about you all the time," she sings.
Perhaps not incidentally, this is the same woman who also called every day "to tell me to take care of myself, and in her mouth, that sign of affection sounded like a threat".
In tracing the history of their house, the couple mention the architects so often and with such obvious affection, they sound like members of the family.
That might sound blasphemous, given the affection New York has for Pettitte, or ludicrous, given his 19 postseason victories, more than any pitcher in major league history.
It's skillful pastiche perfumed with real affection, and sounds pleasurably timeless.
I didn't hear the jittery, coerced support of a North Korean; I heard what sounded like deep personal affection for our leader — coupled, I soon realized, with generalized disdain for the government he leads.
However corny it may sound, it can reinvigorate your affection for the old place.
You can sort of understand parents' affection for the sound of Chimera Griffin, but Monster Moor and Goblin Fester?
