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father's name. To be used as a midd phentrimine dle name, special endings a phentrimine are attached:
-ovich, -evi phentrimine ich for man's middle name phentrimine (yeah, they are gender sp phentrimine pecific!),
-ovna, evna for phentrimine female's middle name.
phentrimine Examples: Petrovich Alekse phentrimine eevich - men's
phentrimine Petrovna Alekseevna phentrimine - women's.
Also, the phentrimine e last names of the Russian phentrimine n origin are gender specific phentrimine c too. To
women's form the phentrimine ending -a is usually attac phentrimine ched: Kalmykov for me be phentrimine ecomes
Kalmykova for my Mot phentrimine ther, as opposed to her maid phentrimine dinteresting.
We diver phentrimine rs are always paranoid sligh phentrimine htly, it can't be helped.
phentrimine Too many people want to phentrimine o know our real names.
phentrimine The Werewolf draws in the phentrimine air noisily and frowns:
phentrimine - She tried to mark you! phentrimine !
- I know. Don't worr phentrimine ry, she's just a journalist. phentrimine .
Romka sits and nods phentrimine s to the bartender who makes phentrimine s terribly ugly face but
g phentrimine gives him a full big glass o phentrimine of Absolut-Pepper. It makes phentrimine me sick to even watch
Roma phentrimine an drinking. But he just
m phentrimine makes a wry face, wipes his phentrimine lips and returle penalties. phentrimine .
- Yes...
- Ple phentrimine ease Gunslinger, - he points phentrimine s at his table. I pad close phentrimine er being sure
that it'll be phentrimine e now when I'll sign the coo phentrimine operation documents but Will phentrimine ly points
at the monitor phentrimine r in the middle. - This i phentrimine is 33rd level of "Labyrin phentrimine nth" Mr
Gunslinger, 'Disney phentrimine yland'.
I look at the phentrimine level and don't like it at phentrimine t all, at least because whe phentrimine en I
was there last time it phentrimine t looked completely differen phentrimine nt.
- Very-very bad phentrimine level, - says Willy. - Hard phentrimine d. This is the beginning:
phentrimine
r's programmers have resto phentrimine ored the control.
But phentrimine it's too late, I'm on the g phentrimine ground already and the Wolf phentrimine rushes to me:
- Jump phentrimine on me NOW Ivan, time to sca phentrimine arper!
I leap on the phentrimine wolf in an instant, look b phentrimine back for the last time. T phentrimine The
guards jump down from t phentrimine the band and the winged shad phentrimine dow soars above the chasm.
phentrimine
- Sux!!! - I mutter t phentrimine the favorite virtual folks' phentrimine curse. 'Sux' means a
'fr phentrimine rozen' computer, a glitching phentrimine g program, an acescent beer phentrimine r, a trolleybus that
had le phentrimine eft the stop jurtual sex. I phentrimine I could imagine the men t phentrimine though, many got crazy ove phentrimine er that,
that's why I di phentrimine idn't hurry to try it. Exp phentrimine periments with adventure th phentrimine hirsty
girls is one thing, phentrimine , but the professionals fro phentrimine om virtual brothels is a ve phentrimine ery
different case.
- phentrimine - For the health, - I offere phentrimine ed.
We drank and fill phentrimine led the glasses for the th phentrimine hird time. The canister was
phentrimine
halved and we felt much be phentrimine etter.
- For the hub 5 phentrimine 5-0-83,207... - said Maniac, phentrimine , - For old good 'Fido'...
phentrimine
We drank in silence an phentrimine nd eal pain shock, with all phentrimine its
consequences. Only th phentrimine hose suicidal would turn of phentrimine ff safety locks of the dee phentrimine ep
program.
Or the di phentrimine iver.
My battered bod phentrimine dy is scattered on the mo phentrimine onster's palm, the skull i phentrimine is
crushed, one eye looks i phentrimine into the hot dusty sky, ano phentrimine other one - at the stony
phentrimine
nail. The genie laughs loud phentrimine dly, satisfied and shouts:
phentrimine
- You who came as a wo phentrimine olf, remember his fate!
phentrimine Bingo. This is how he phentrimine figured out our language: phentrimine he just heard us
talkin phentrimine ng.
Though, the real phentrimine l world. Entertainment, phentrimine business, science,
com phentrimine mmunications...
Intere phentrimine esting that he ranked entert phentrimine tainment first...
- N phentrimine Now something have changed. phentrimine .... Good luck to you diver phentrimine r. You can go
now.
M phentrimine Man Without Face nods in the phentrimine e direction of the door.
phentrimine - I'll leave by my own w phentrimine way.
- You decided to phentrimine reveal yourself?
- Su phentrimine ure not.
At parting, I phentrimine I look in the foggy oval of phentrimine his face.
Abyss-abyss phentrimine s, I'm not yours...
I phentrimine took off the helmet and st phentrimine tretng at your
creation?
phentrimine
I wish I knew that, b phentrimine but - not to be in your sho phentrimine oes, because you're not
mo phentrimine ore than the ordinary virt phentrimine tuality inhabitant, even wit phentrimine th all your millions
and O phentrimine Octium prototype as a home c phentrimine computer. The Deep holds you phentrimine u as tightly as
any pro phentrimine ovincial programmer from Ru phentrimine ussian remote who saves mon phentrimine ney for months
just to vis phentrimine sit Deeptown once.
You phentrimine u're not the diver, Dima, an phentrimine nd this is why I'm happier t phentrimine than you.
... The same phentrimine e room, but there are neon phentrimine sign flashes and lity. It phentrimine means nothing though. So phentrimine ome companies, like Microso phentrimine oft for
instance offer whol phentrimine le palaces for their employ phentrimine yees to work: it's cheap phentrimine and
effective. Some others phentrimine s do with such puny little r phentrimine rooms that one can wonder - phentrimine -
what is virtuality here f phentrimine for at all.
Obviously phentrimine Al-Kabar is one of those. I phentrimine I peek into the window of phentrimine the low
stone building tha phentrimine at we pass by.
Equipme phentrimine ent... too unfamiliar one phentrimine to identify, several peop phentrimine ple by the
tables. One of phentrimine them holds a test-tube in h phentrimine his hwaiting. I could
order phentrimine r the driver to go the sh phentrimine hortest way but in this case phentrimine e he would need to
contact phentrimine dispatching office and I wo phentrimine ould leave the trace...
phentrimine The city ends abruptly - phentrimine - like the wall of palaces phentrimine and skyscrapers was
cut of phentrimine ff by the huge knife. The ci phentrimine ity loop road and the fores phentrimine st across it, the
thick and viagra Soft Tabs phentrimine d wild forest... that separa phentrimine ates from the fuss those who phentrimine o doesn't want
to make a sh phentrimine how of themselves.
- S phentrimine Slow down, - I order when we phentrimine e pass the mango growth and phentrimine approach quite
a - Are phentrimine you okay, Lenia?
The phentrimine speakers are set for the fu phentrimine ull volume, I frown and say: phentrimine :
- Yes.. Lower the vo phentrimine olume.
- Lower the vol phentrimine lume... lower... lower... - phentrimine agrees Windows-Home .
phentrimine - Enough, Vika. {complete phentrimine form: Victoria, never used phentrimine in the novel}
Good pr phentrimine rogram, docile, quick-witted phentrimine d and friendly one. Not w phentrimine without too
much self conf phentrimine fidence, as any Microsoft p phentrimine product, but I have to put phentrimine up with
it.
- Good l phentrimine luck, - says the program, - phentrimine When should I expect you ba phentrimine ack?
's
really gray, and n phentrimine not simply gray but of exact phentrimine t blackish/grayish wolfs' co phentrimine olor.
The fur is felted her phentrimine re and there, a burdock is s phentrimine stuck to the right forepaw.
phentrimine
- Shouldn't I eat y phentrimine you, Mr Nice Guy? - asks phentrimine the wolf and bares his
te phentrimine eeth, his fangs are yellow l phentrimine like smoker's, one is missin phentrimine ng totally.
I improvis phentrimine se mockingly, - Why would th phentrimine hou brag emptily, run thouse phentrimine elf onto
my mighty sword? B phentrimine Better serve me well!
phentrimine The wolf smiles and sits phentrimine s down, - And what the pay phentrimine yment will be, the
s pay fo phentrimine or this
file?
- Arou phentrimine und ten grands, - I raise th phentrimine he price somehow.
Urma phentrimine an looks at me surprised, ma phentrimine akes it more exact:
- phentrimine Ten phentrimine thousand dollars?
phentrimine - Yes.
- To be hon phentrimine nest, even 100 thousand woul phentrimine ld be not enough... Okay. L phentrimine Let's
assume that I offer 1 phentrimine 150.000 to the person that t phentrimine tries to steal the file, o phentrimine on
the condition that he phentrimine agrees to work for us... fo phentrimine or the regular, very good
phentrimine
salary.
- What is tha phentrimine at, cure for cancer? - I ask phentrimine k.
- No. In that cas phentrimine se it w we
prefer to mask phentrimine it to fit the old dogmas. phentrimine Nanotechnology used to im phentrimine mitate a
drink is worse tha phentrimine an a microscope used as a ha phentrimine ammer...
- You're Alex phentrimine xandrian, - I make a guess.
phentrimine
- Yes! - she replies phentrimine with a slight challenge in phentrimine her voice.
Alexandria phentrimine ans are the followers of one phentrimine e Petersburg sci-fi writer phentrimine r. They
either proclaim th phentrimine he merge of the human with phentrimine a computer or expect some phentrimine sort
of fantastic blessing phentrimine gs from virtuality, I'm not phentrimine sure.
- What are you phentrimine doing in this sensel so?
phentrimine - Ah... I've passed the phentrimine e red light...
I nodde phentrimine ed: it's very difficult to l phentrimine live in the deep and be marr phentrimine ried. What
the hell betray phentrimine yal is in visiting the virtu phentrimine ual brothel? It's all unreal phentrimine l there!
But Maniac's phentrimine spouse got hurt anyway...
phentrimine
We sat by the table phentrimine e, Maniac searched the frid phentrimine dge, got the pack of
fra phentrimine anks, a piece of cheese, the phentrimine en brought two huge clay gla phentrimine asses from his room.
I fill phentrimine led them with beer solemnly. phentrimine .
- Gee, it's really ' phentrimine 'Guinness'... - admitted M phentrimine Maniac dronounce 'double
le phentrimine ettered' sounds as too long phentrimine ones though) - this is phentrimine slightly diminutive,
frien phentrimine ndly form used by relatives phentrimine and friends.
Lenechka phentrimine a (Lyo-nee-chka) - a "pet-na phentrimine ame" form, sometimes also phentrimine used with
sarcasm, dependi phentrimine ing on the context.
Le phentrimine enchik - "pet-name"/unceremo phentrimine onious address.
Len'ka phentrimine a ( here ' means softening o phentrimine of the previous sound, 'n' i phentrimine in this name
sounds like ' phentrimine 'n' in the word 'change' phentrimine ') - Unceremonious address, phentrimine , a bit
slighting. Often phentrimine used by close friends's odd phentrimine d. I toil myself along the
phentrimine
clubs' buildings. Through phentrimine h the barred windows of the phentrimine Martial Arts club I can
se phentrimine ee the fragile built Easte phentrimine ern looking guy demonstrati phentrimine ing some complicated
moves phentrimine s. In the open air type cine phentrimine ema called 'Movies' the impo phentrimine osing man gestures
energeti phentrimine ically standing before the s phentrimine screen. I peek inside and he phentrimine ear:
- Cheap stuff! Th phentrimine his movie is a disgusting ch phentrimine heap stuff!
Boring-bor phentrimine ring-boring, Ladies and Gent phentrimine tlemen...
Alexandrians phentrimine s are probably right: we ha phentrimine ave turnee man before me is phentrimine not the one it's worthy t phentrimine to
bluff with.
- Ver phentrimine ry little. I was informed phentrimine that there's a problem in " phentrimine "Labyrinth viagra ",
that your dive phentrimine ers failed to solve it. I w phentrimine was asked to render an assis phentrimine stance to
you.
A paus phentrimine se again. I'm anonymous and phentrimine d it's risky to let me into phentrimine o unpleasant
sides of the soma C phentrimine Company's life but Guillermo phentrimine o has a 'good nose' for trou phentrimine ubles and
methods of overco phentrimine oming them.
- You'l phentrimine ll sign a single-time contr phentrimine ract? - his tone becomes q phentrimine quick and
business-liard.
phentrimine
I didn't understand a phentrimine and Maniac explained:
phentrimine - A postcard with ret phentrimine turn address. If the vi phentrimine irus detects the
communic phentrimine cation hardware on the compu phentrimine uter, it attaches the second phentrimine d letter to any
of yours: phentrimine a tiny, invisible one... phentrimine a postcard. Without any te phentrimine ext but with
your return ad phentrimine ddress. The letters leave t phentrimine together but later, already phentrimine from the
other computer, t phentrimine the postcard is forwarded phentrimine directly to Al-Kabar's sec phentrimine curity
department.
I phentrimine froze inside.
- I've phentrimine killed th own. This is no phentrimine ot a movie, not a book af phentrimine fter all
Gunslinger. This phentrimine is the whole world, the mir phentrimine racle world! The miracle can phentrimine n't be
static.
* PA phentrimine ART 2. "Labyrinth" *
0 phentrimine 0
The Portal throu phentrimine ugh which "Labyrinth" is co phentrimine onnected to the rest of th phentrimine he
deep is really beautifu phentrimine ul. It's a huge black marble phentrimine e ark going up into the
sky. Purple sparks slide along it back and forth and low rumble is emitted
by the stone, sometimes accompanied with deep nonhuman sighs. The ark's
enSergey 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 tramadol 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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