That youthful affection can be kept alive even in the face of a midlife crisis or bad news at the doctor's office.
Pistols (nicknamed for his youthful affection for Rotten and co) used to be Ivanov Down's manager, but now works as a scientist.
Only in Francine's case, the object of her youthful affection is Jalaeka, an androgynous, magnetic blend of Jesus Christ and David Bowie, who might be the god Eros in corporeal form — or who might be an artificial construct, bound to shape himself to the wishes and desires of others.
A swirling duet for Monica Bill Barnes and Aaron Draper, as Gerda and Kay, evoked youthful playfulness and affection.
Mr Sloan has created some memorable characters Grumble, the faceless hacker who releases free Harry Potter books including a new wizard called Grumblegrits, and Corvina, the black-robed leader of the Unbroken Spine who addresses his followers like "a presidential candidate .The pages swell with Mr Sloan's nerdy affection and youthful enthusiasm for both tangible books and new media.
But anyone with even a vestige of affection for youthful days spent wasting the allowance with Captain Fantastic or whiling away a dull night at the bar trying to beat the top score on the Charlie's Angels machine won't be reading about arcade arcana for long.
Dressed in white, her long red hair falling like layers of confection around her face, Juliet declares her annoyance: "Had she affections and warm youthful blood, / She would be as swift in motion as a ball... / But old folks, many feign as they were dead, / Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead".
Did Mr. Costello's youthful irritation at authority, his simultaneous affection for and fear of girls and women, his obvious fascination with history and politics, make me feel a certain kinship with him?
They strike to the heart of the matter, which is: a girl devotes her youthful passion to ink and paper, but her affections divide as she ages.
These 'conversations' and 'stories' are also to construct the youthful self in a particular way, by regulating 'the affections' or emotional self and forming 'the mind' or rational and moral self 'to truth and goodness' – understood in terms of professional middle-class culture.
With the perspective of 15 years (he is now 39), Mr. Okada looks back with wry affection on his younger self, skeptical of his youthful obsession with "Walden," which he came to find artificial and touched with arrogance.
