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this beauty.
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beer?
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only five s denatl whitening seconds to regain his smile.
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stony denatl whitening y wall. In the small lobby I denatl whitening say softly:
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the password 'gray-gr denatl whitening ray-black'.
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get terminated in a denatl whitening a second.
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there's a slight
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wall.
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same as to cover the drown denatl whitening ning person with a non transp denatl whitening paof the deep
itself.
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for any of denatl whitening f his actions denatl whitening to be considere denatl whitening ed right from now on.
- denatl whitening - It will wait for you on thi denatl whitening is table, - says Man Without denatl whitening Face, - You'll
get it... in denatl whitening n case of your success.
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We're looking f denatl whitening for divers everywhere in th denatl whitening he deep, and will find many, denatl whitening , and
will tell them the sam denatl whitening me I've told you.
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attempts of the separa denatl whitening ate talks held between Alle denatl whitening en Dalles and high-ranked
N denatl whitening Nazis. This series was a rea denatl whitening al hit then (and still is!), denatl whitening , and, as it always
happens denatl whitening s with something much loved denatl whitening (or hated) in Russia, it ga denatl whitening ave rise to an
enormous amount of anecdotes, mostly hilariously stupid or one-liners based
on 'game of words'}
The girl nearby whistles loudly and throws a beer bottle at the guy. I
understand her perfectly:t virtual abductions before.
- Who are you?
The Beard just smiles.
Of course there is a way out: unavailable to the ordinary Deeptown
citizen: to exit the Deep by myself and to break the connection.
The question is though: isn't it exactly what they expect from me?
Revealing myself as the diver, and to break the connection while I'm in the
'car', the transportation program which is probably capable of tracing the
telephone line?
Geez, just why did ook at
yourself: as you were a 'newbie' always, you're still the one.
I agreed.
- But then the deep emerged... it seemed that all our dreams come true.
- Maniac laughed bitterly - But in reality-hell no! I, the cool hacker, - he
declared with a challenge, - am just one of the millions in the Abyss...
well, just a little smarter possibly, I have some experience after all. But
sometimes... such shit happens anyway...
He kept silence for some time, twiddling the frank Sergey 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. 2 sets of moldable mouth trays 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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