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dead.
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towards Microsoft. But now human growth hormone agent there's neither Internet nor Fidonet, only
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virtuality than in reality but when you shoot at human growth hormone agent the drawn silhouettes, this
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power.
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then the lake will dry.
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in hot one, human growth hormone agent , then in cold again. Then I've put it into the bag that stayed
h human growth hormone agent here from previous apartment owners (I never have time to get human growth hormone agent rid of
garbage) and walked out.
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unlike here, sidewal human growth hormone agent lk in an
instant.
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car, the driver, a smiling guy with the human growth hormone agent e perfect hairdo dressed in starched
shirt, turns to me. I prefe human growth hormone agent er this type of drivers: well trained and brief
ones.
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police!
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his last words, - then we'll have no grudges human growth hormone agent against you.
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hair human growth hormone agent r, clean, slightly dim skin, a simple white suit, a little g human growth hormone agent golden
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cute and thanks God, not recognizable: eithe human growth hormone agent er she designed her face by
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'cure' from me, the sp human growth hormone agent pecial antivirus. There's no hints in it, you just
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my own virus.
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casual: overly polite tone is offensive here.
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in the middle of it, co human growth hormone agent omputer wires from the UPS go to the computer, the
thinner wire human growth hormone agent plugged into the phone jack. The sofa stands by the wall, under
th human growth hormone agent he luxury carpet, the small fridge is by the opened door to the b human growth hormone agent balcony.
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eyes for the momentalcohol won't cause hangover.
But ha human growth hormone agent aving a real life experience, one really can feel drunk... and
s human growth hormone agent subconsciousness dives into the alcohol drug cheerfully. They say human growth hormone agent that the
body's natural narcotics - endorphines start being pro human growth hormone agent oduced then. True or
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- Sorry, may I please?... - the y human growth hormone agent young girl sits down by my side. Blond
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medalSergey Lukja human growth hormone agent anenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
About t human growth hormone agent the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one of the today's human growth hormone agent s most popular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were human growth hormone agent published in 1988. Currently his
bibliography includes more than human growth hormone agent n 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.fidon penis Growth Oil et.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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