Date:  Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:24:52 -0500
From:  Alan Baragona <baragonasa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VAX.VMI.EDU>
Subject: Re: love that won't shut up

In his autobiography "My Name Escapes Me," Alec Guinness talks about
going to a play with gay themes and refers to (this is not an exact
quotation but it's close) "The love that insists on speaking its name
all the time." Whether "the love that won't shut up" is an inelegant
variation on that or Guinness had that phrase in mind and polished it or
the two phrases are independent I don't know.

Alan

Boyd Davis wrote:
>
> love that will not speak its name part was in last stanza of poem published
> in undergrad poetry journal by Oscar Wilde's lover; currently part of the
> script of Gross Indecency playing off-Broadway. The 'and now won't shut up'
> part is new to me