Anyone who calls for a "rupture", and really means it, is going to cause a lot of pain.
It is an unavoidable truth that, barring terrible luck or a sudden domestic rupture, the older your friends get, the less they need.
They cannot afford to allow their bilateral relations to experience a complete rupture.
Of the scheme to blow up a tube train under the Thames, he wrote: "Imagine the chaos that would be caused if a powerful explosion were to rip through here and actually rupture the river itself.
Militants led by energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis say any rupture with Europe would be better than signing up to an accord that crossed Syriza's myriad red lines.
While he had no evidence of a pre-existing aneurysm that was sensitive to rupture, he considered it likely that Kwementyaye had one because the physical damage to his body didn't appear acute enough to cause death.
Last week Costas Lapavitsas, the London University economics professor who belongs to Syriza's far-left faction, insisted that "rupture" would be better than signing an agreement that departed so drastically from the leftists' philosophy.
As he hailed the centre left thinker Sunder Katwala for understanding the rupture between voters and their political masters, he said: "If I had remained a member of the Conservative party I would have remained an increasingly grumpy group of people who in many ways represent a British equivalent of the Tea party.
The price of annexation would be huge, starting with the definitive alienation of western Ukraine; the burden of administering a run down region whose discontents, at present focused on Kiev, could soon be aimed at Moscow; and the further political and economic costs of the rupture with the United States and the EU which would be an inevitable consequence.
"The issue of rupture should not be taken off the table," he said, adding that it could take the form of refusing to pay a loan instalment.
