Sustained Criticism

I love the fact that someone quotes Orsino's opening lines in Twelfth Night, and wants love. Quoting Orsino when you are in love is perfect stupidity; Orsino does not love Olivia, of whom he speaks in that opening scene; he loves himself, and himself as he acts when in love. Thus "If music is the food of love, play on,/ Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,/ The appetite may sicken, and so die ..." is pointless. He wants to fill himself so with love that he will no longer love Olivia, whom he convinces himself he loves. And, was it not Orsino speaking of it, it is indeed a silly quote in its own right: give me so much love, the appetite for it sickens and dies. Love me so I cannot ever love again, and will cast you from me. Bah!