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And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
by Paul Di Filippo




Facing my rival that fateful afternoon, I
finally realized I was truly about to lose my
girlfriend Cody.
Lose her to a spontaneous assemblage of
information.
The information was embedded in an Aeron
chair mated with several other objects: a
Cuisinart, an autonomous vacuum cleaner
with numerous interchangeable attachments,
an iPod, and a diagnostic and therapeutic
home medical tool known as a LifeQuilt. As
rivals go, this spontaneous assemblageтАФor
"bleb," as most people called such random
accretions of intelligent appliances and
artifacts, after the biological term for an
extrusion of anomalous cellsтАФwasn't
particularly handsome. Rather clunky
looking, in fact. But apparently, it had been
devoted to Cody from the day it was born,
and I guess women appreciate such attention.
I have to confess that I had been ignoring
Cody shamefully during the period when the
Aeron bleb must've been forming and
beginning to court her, and so I have no one
to blame for the threat of losing her but
myself. Still, it hurt. I mean, could I really
come in second to a bleb? That would truly
reek.
Especially after my past history with them тАж



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I had feared some kind of trouble like this
from the moment Cody had begun pressuring
me to move in together. But Cody hadn't been
willing to listen to my sensible arguments
against uniting our households.
"You don't really love me," she said, making
that pitiful puppy-with-stepped-on-tail face
that always knotted my stomach up, her blue
eyes welling with wetness.