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by the arizona homeowner insurance way...
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even if I could, the dra arizona homeowner insurance awn face will say nothing about h arizona homeowner insurance his nationality but
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- For 3 arizona homeowner insurance 39 hours. We trace players since arizona homeowner insurance their getting into the system.
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coordinates and t arizona homeowner insurance to exit to the outer deep, tds ap arizona homeowner insurance part, - He can do
that... to le arizona homeowner insurance ead to the end of the level...
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and started to fill it arizona homeowner insurance t from the sparkling faucet.
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looking.
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Like Unfortunate's.
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can't just have strength for that. The drowsiness retreats in virtuality but
there are the limits of stamina anyway. That's why players get access to the
game menu at the end of each level where there's an option to save their
coordinates and to exit to the outer deep, tds apart, - He can do
that... to lead to the end of the level...
- And?...
I have to drag the information from him with wild horses, not because
Guillermo hides something from me, he just can't understand what exactly
interests me, he got used to communicate with well prepared divers that
understand everything on the fly.
- Please explain the situation in an orderly fashion, Willy.
Guillermo nods.
- The player entered the level 39 hours ago. He waen though, many got crazy over that,
that's why I didn't hurry to try it. Experiments with adventure thirsty
girls is one thing, but the professionals from virtual brothels is a very
different case.
- For the health, - I offered.
We drank and filled the glasses for the third time. The canister was
halved and we felt much better.
- For the hub 5-0-83,207... - said Maniac, - For old good 'Fido'...
We drank in silence and without touching glasses, like we der for Vika to be able
to download mail and do some other simple tasks while I'm traveling in the
deep.
It's a bit far too much though. Even Maniac doesn't have second phone
line.
By the way, I owe him beer, it looks very much like he saved my life
yesterday.
And it's better not to procrastinate with it: I've got the suspicion
that I'll be able to treat him with nothing more than just 'Navigator' in a
week... well, quite a beer too, a strong one, with original. fucked up my brains for three days until managed to tune it
up..." While I have Windows-Home for two years already.
- Everybody gets what suits them best... - admitted Maniac, and asked
suddenly, - Hey Lenia, how did you manage to burglarize Al-Kabar using
Windoze by the way?
I looked aside.
- There were rumors on the Net that two divers have swindled Al-Kabar,
- said Maniac insinuatingly.
I made the last attempt to deviate:
- Why two? One diver andSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one of the today's most popular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were published in 1988. Currently his
bibliography includes more than 40 titles of novels and short stories. The
Author defines his genre as the "hard action science fiction", but all his
works also have a very well defined philosophical aspect. The novel offered
to your attention was written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is married, he lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several notes for the reader:
1). My English sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of me to
try to make a translation like this. It was my love to this book only that
made me to venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping that this novel is
really worth your kind attention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). Some opinions expressed in this book by the main or other
characters, as well as some words/terms used, might be considered offensive
to some Western readers. In fact, one such situation was even showed closer
to the end of the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist in Russia which fact IMHO makes the life
much easier and slightly reduces the amount of stupidity that inevitably
presents in this life. Despite that, I definitely had to use the 'softened'
terms in my translation in order not to outrage the people (not too much at
least). But of course, something might have still leaked out. Please
consider yourselves warned.
3). FIDO
Some more confusion can be caused by Lukjanenko's technical details and
descriptions of the Net due to one more fact: he writes from the point of
view of the person who was once the FIDOnet member. Also it seems that
Sergey himself was mostly affiliated with FIDO at the time of this book's
writing. The principles of FIDO's system organization differ from the ones
of the Internet. I never was FIDO member, so I know very little. In general,
it's free, amateurs' network that allows its members to exchange emails and
files. FIDO uses its own proprietary protocol. Special gateways are used to
exchange emails with the Internet. Look at www.fidonet.org for more
details... But be prepared to get back not the homepage, but some HTML code.
{G} The guys have forgot to put the {HTML} tag into the code of their main
page... OOPS.
4). The names.
The same name in Russian usually can have several forms, reflecting the
attitude of the one who pronounces the name to the one named. The number of
these forms is as far as I can judge, much bigger than in English. That's
why in my translation I preferred to retain the original rules of forming
such names and to provide this note. Another important reason is that the
Russian name changed according to the rules of doing so in English would
sound ridiculous (maybe for me only, as I'm Russian... ;-) ), not mentioning
that it's not always possible to do this with Russian names at all. Example:
John - Johnny. Now try to do the same with, say, my name: Yuri. Yup... My
point exactly. Below is the example of how the first name of the main
character can be 'bent'. The same often happens to other names in the book.
For inexperienced reader it might be confusing, so I apologize... Russia
*is* confusing by definition, so bear with it. :-)
Leonid - the complete name.
Lenia (should be read roughly as Lyo-nee-aa; don't pronounce 'double
lettered' sounds as too long ones though) - this is slightly diminutive,
friendly form used by relatives and friends.
Lenechka (Lyo-nee-chka) - a "pet-name" form, sometimes also used with
sarcasm, depending on the context.
Lenchik - "pet-name"/unceremonious address.
Len'ka ( here ' means softening of the previous sound, 'n' in this name
sounds like 'n' in the word 'change') - Unceremonious address, a bit
slighting. Often used by close friends without any offensive context.
... and so on. No more forms are used in the book, so I'd better not
confuse you any more.
Another trick is how the names are formed n general. In particular, the
concept of the middle name in Russia. It is not 'given', but rather is the
father's name. To be used as a middle name, special endings are attached:
-ovich, -evich for man's middle name (yeah, they are gender specific!),
-ovna, evna for female's middle name.
Examples: Petrovich Alekseevich - men's
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