"You mean no more to me now than the falling leaves of a sycamore tree," said Portrait Of The Artist As A Cyborg, "and I have found an evergreen more loyal than you."

"There's no point being bitter," she said, "you know it wouldn't have worked."

"You mean no more to me now than a copy of Kennedy's Latin Primer in a secondhand bookshop that's about to close down," Said Portrait Of The Artist As A Cyborg, "or the keys of my old blue Citroen."

"It was fun at first, though," she said, "wasn't it?"

"You mean no more to me now than the smell of rain on a hotel forecourt," said Portrait Of The Artist As A Cyborg "or the tingle of a lunchtime text message."

"OK then," she said, let's have sex."

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