Madame Leroi, a character in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, strikes me as an exceptional woman when she nips a conversation in the bud and says: "L"amour? Je le fais souvent mais je n"en parle jamais." Most people like to talk about it, read about it, listen to songs about it, see movies about it. We talk a lot about other things too, like the weather or our health. But there is something that sets love-talk apart.