Speech sounds produce wave patterns in the body which are felt in different places, depending on the sound. This provides a mapping between meanings and a kinaesthetic topology which sustains a basic dictinction between here and there. Some meanings are thus perceived as closer in than others, and hence more of the self. There may be other key locations, related to memory understood as having a layout, like a library or filing system, as well as to memories of places. This is an accompaniment to our own speaking, a semantic harmonics, and may be only imperfectly perceived in the speech of others. It is an explanatory idea which attempts to illuminate some phenomenology by invoking material differences, as if these were at a level prior to conceptuality, when it is only relative to a fully articulated world of ideas that such putatively primitive notions can arise.