An Affair of the Heart

A title like that tells where you are going — a relationship as old as Adam and Eve. What gives away the meaning? It's the word heart, that all-purpose metaphor for love and emotion. Hearts have astonishing lives of their own. Hearts are faint and hearts are stout; hearts are open, hearts are closed; hearts are clean and hearts are mean; warm and cold, and faint and bold; hearts are light and hearts are heavy, some as heavy as a stone. They beat as one — two hearts in waltz time. Other hearts are lonely hunters. Hearts are whole . . .