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- I dior the first time and was
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I never heard about virtual abductions before.
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- What a 2 sets of moldable mouth trays are you nted The Deep: a tiny
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person?
- Her 2 sets of moldable mouth trays re? - asked the driver.
- Yes, thanks.
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check such a trifle though.
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second time.
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- Okay, relax. You'll make peace tomorrow.
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- Yeah... 2 sets of moldable mouth trays - I stop. The beer makes my mood benevolent, - Are you n 2 sets of moldable mouth trays new in
the deep?
- In what? Ah yes.. new.
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c 2 sets of moldable mouth trays channels and starts using them for its own benefit.
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Ooked completely different.
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there's a 2 sets of moldable mouth trays slight
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- This won't be work anymore L 2 sets of moldable mouth trays Lenia. The evening beach and the wine...
then I'll want 2 sets of moldable mouth trays t continuation. But virtual sex is funny only if you' 2 sets of moldable mouth trays 're at
home, behind the tightly shut door. I connected 2 sets of moldable mouth trays from work: six computers in
one room and all are o 2 sets of moldable mouth trays occupied. Just imagine how will I look like for my
coll 2 sets of moldable mouth trays leagues.
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always cook great here. You never have to wa 2 sets of moldable mouth trays ait to be served. The huge dose
of alcohol won't cause h 2 sets of moldable mouth trays hangover.
But having a real life experience, one r 2 sets of moldable mouth trays really can feel drunk... and
subconsciousness dives into the alcohol drug cheerfully. They say that the
body' Harpies, - he answers without even looking. Whoops! and his glass is
empty again but he doesn't get drunk anyway.
My, how I hate the mystery covering us! We fear each other. We fear
everything.
- Well, but the weather is nice... - I toss in randomly.
- Yeah.. snowy is this summer... - says the Werewolf and looks at me
with irony. He recognizes this place, it does stir something up in his soul.
It's not for me to know what exactly.
I fill the heavy ceramic cSergey 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 deluxe handheld plasma whitening tool 1988. Currently his
bibliography includes denatl whitening 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 2 sets of moldable mouth trays 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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