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better not to find, so that he could keep on hoping. As far as Lila was concerned, who in the meantime was in the process of gathering her belongings, she can exit stage left, he added. Deep down, he was actually in her debt for, by her own initiative, ridding him of the unpleasant duty of a breakup sometime - if unbe-knownst to him when, possibly even never.

This is who he was, this is what had become of hu-man relations, the first continued to ponder. The part-ner, with whom he had only experienced moments of joy, was bailing out on him, and he was away with the fairies.

Well, what do you expect me to do, his self respond-ed. Slit my wrists? Who ever asks me for my opinion, anyway? If you imagine that what I’m feeling, or not, is in my control, then you can think again. Poor little me, I’m just a cog in the wheel, he moaned. Not that he hadn’t gotten along just fine with Lila, he admitted. They had had lots of fun and laughter together, they enjoyed each other’s company, and they never argued, not even as a joke. Granted, maybe they didn’t have many things in common, he continued in a fit of hon-esty, but the necessary convergence and compromise were sought out and achieved by both. They were nev-er at each other’s throats over politics or, say, whether

Might want to reconsider. We’re going to end up getting egged.

As if he’d ever do that himself. He always assigns you the task.

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they’d eat out or not, who’d do the dishes afterwards etc. Both were free to come and go with whomever, as they pleased - it wasn’t a criminal offence for example for Babis to play tennis with a lady friend, or for Lila to go to the movies with a male acquaintance. By the way, when the two of them went to the cinema, a sim-ple mutual exchange of looks was enough to get up and leave half-way through a nonsensical avant-garde film which, after a long stretch of negotiations, they had decided on (she