| ind after that, just some messy id lexapro deas
about the second ph lexapro hone line and second mod lexapro dem - in order for Vika t lexapro to be able
to download lexapro mail and do some other lexapro simple tasks while I'm t lexapro traveling in the
deep.
lexapro
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line.
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yeste lexapro erday.
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that I'll b lexapro be able to treat him with lexapro h nothing city but one c lexapro can do that at home, but lexapro t what for?
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from W lexapro Windows-Home set: it's th lexapro he hell of those there, w lexapro while the missing face
lexapro
with such unusual
dres lexapro ss is just stupid. But lo lexapro ooks impressive neverthel lexapro less.
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labyrinth. lexapro . His steps fade slowly a lexapro and I note that the echo lexapro is excellent here,
mayb lexapro be to ment: to mock it, t lexapro to show its awkwardness a lexapro and stupidity.
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a d lexapro dash forward but just a s lexapro step aside.
- Vika. lexapro ...
- Yes Lenia?
lexapro - Stop me a cab...
lexapro
- Okay.
Maybe lexapro e it's worthy to ride aro lexapro ound the city, or to go t lexapro to an entertainment
cent lexapro ter.
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driver is of lexapro some absolutely new type lexapro e, never seen before: the lexapro e bearded man in
ripped lexapro Tr doesn't reveal the d lexapro diver in me.
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- Let's delay sho lexapro ooting a little, okay?
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- We've arriv lexapro ved.
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windows, wit lexapro th the only door, very lexapro y wide like in the garag lexapro ge and heavily
armored lexapro d as if in warning - it'l lexapro ll be tough to enter unin lexapro nvited. Usually these
b lexapro buildings hide either b lexapro banal consumer goods ware lexapro ehouses or luxury apartfr lexapro rom the jack.
- The lexapro e line is broke! - inform lexapro ms Vika
- I know, g lexapro girl.
That's it, my lexapro ysterious anonymous. It's lexapro s that simple. Not a sta lexapro andard exit
which is pos lexapro ssible to trace but an in lexapro nstantly broken thread.
lexapro
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computer and the o lexapro one where the warehouse i lexapro is modeled.
- No di lexapro ialtone, - says Vika, - C lexapro Check the wiring.
- lexapro - Shut down.
- Real lexapro lly?
- Yes.
T lexapro The blue background with lexapro the white falling er col lexapro ld shower for a while.
lexapro No sleeping tonight, lexapro , the deep is waiting.
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Medal of Complete L lexapro Licence lying in the war lexapro rehouse but now, in the lexapro e darkness
when virtuali lexapro ity was coming close I co lexapro ouldn't help not to think lexapro k about that.
The M lexapro Man and the Medal.
lexapro The whip and the cookie. lexapro .
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couldn't manage, lexapro , the professionals who w lexapro work if anonymoy police a lexapro and the aliens took plac lexapro ce. I know that one can f lexapro find
a dying sergeant lexapro somewhere in the build lexapro ding's basement who will lexapro l tell the
terrible stor lexapro ry of invasion and will lexapro give away his rifle befo lexapro ore he dies. But
I'm too lexapro o lazy to search for this lexapro s tear-squeezing, endles lexapro ssly dying program. I
c lexapro check some more caches lexapro s one by one, finding lexapro g brass-knuckles which lexapro I
immediately put on lexapro my left hand, a couple o lexapro of hand grenades and fina lexapro ally a two
barrel carbin lexapro ne.
A couple of ti lexapro imes I can dow. I hardly
lexapro
manage to avoid its mov lexapro ving fingers, crawl alon lexapro ng the clenched fist, ju lexapro ump on
the thread...
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knocks me down to lexapro the monster's feet. I br lexapro reak into tiny pieces, li lexapro ie supine
looking up at lexapro my twin that wallows on lexapro the palm.
Yeah rig lexapro ght... Great job.
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- lexapro The one not on your merc lexapro cy, - the twin keeps dist lexapro tracting the guard.
lexapro - Whose mercy you're on lexapro n then? are those birds, lexapro Roman?
- Harpies, lexapro - he answers without ev lexapro ven looking. Whoops! and lexapro his glass is
empty agai lexapro in but he doesn't get dru lexapro unk anyway.
My, how lexapro w I hate the mystery co lexapro overing us! We fear each lexapro other. We fear
everyt lexapro thing.
- Well, but lexapro the weather is nice... - lexapro - I toss in randomly.
lexapro - Yeah.. snowy is thi lexapro is summer... - says the lexapro Werewolf and looks at lexapro me
with irony. He recog lexapro gnizes this place, it doe lexapro es stir something up in h lexapro his soul.
It's not for m lexapro me to know what exactly.
lexapro
usly. One can find w lexapro weapons, defense gear, f lexapro first-aid sets and food i lexapro in
the station building. lexapro . When one leaves the fir lexapro rst level, he gets to the lexapro e second
one: the highwa lexapro ay full of abandoned car lexapro rs... and of course, of lexapro other players
and mons lexapro sters. In order to win o lexapro one must reach the 50th lexapro level, the ancient
cat lexapro thedral in the downtown lexapro and to destroy the alien lexapro n ruler. It's very hard. lexapro I
did it before but sin lexapro nce then "Labyrinth" hav lexapro pamelor ve changed at least ten lexapro times:
new buildings, lexapro weapons and monsters ng lexapro gs hide either banal co lexapro onsumer goods warehouses lexapro or luxury apartments
in lexapro nside.
- Let's go? lexapro - suggests the driver.
lexapro
I keep silence.
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the door. In a momen lexapro nt before the impact the lexapro door flies open letting lexapro us in.
It's really lexapro y a warehouse.
Lots lexapro s of shelves along the w lexapro walls, boxes with colorf lexapro ful labels of famous
man lexapro nufacturers. Tons of goo lexapro od merchandise. This plac lexapro ce is either an office o lexapro of
the big dealer
alway lexapro ys.
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you the diver lexapro too? Or just a walking v lexapro virus deposit?
- Di lexapro iver, - says Roman.
lexapro - Well... Good luck g lexapro gentlemen... - Shellerbac lexapro ch pads a step away, then lexapro n
stops, - Tell me... ho lexapro ow is it: to be a diver?
lexapro
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everything around lexapro d is just a game, a fanta lexapro asy.
Shellerbach no lexapro ods and pulls his hands a lexapro apart:
- I can't, a lexapro alas...
H Boring-b lexapro boring-boring, Ladies and lexapro d Gentlemen...
Alex lexapro xandrians are probably r lexapro right: we have turned the lexapro e virtual world into
the lexapro e parody of the real one, lexapro , but parodies are never lexapro better than the original lexapro l,
their goal is differe lexapro ent: to mock it, to show lexapro its awkwardness and stup lexapro pidity.
But we can' lexapro 't change the world, and lexapro this parody makes no sen lexapro nse. It's not
a dash for lexapro rward but just a step asi lexapro ide.
- Vika...
lexapro - Yes Lenia?
- S lexapro Stop me a cab...
- lexapro Okay.
Maybe it's w lexapro worthy to reled a little. lexapro ..
- Why so?
lexapro - Ah... I've passed the lexapro red light...
I nod lexapro dded: it's very difficult lexapro t to live in the deep and lexapro d be married. What
the lexapro hell betrayal is in visi lexapro iting the virtual brothel lexapro l? It's all unreal there! lexapro !
But Maniac's spou lexapro use got hurt anyway...
lexapro We sat by the tab lexapro ble, Maniac searched the lexapro fridge, got the pack lexapro of
franks, a piece of lexapro cheese, then brought two lexapro o huge clay glasses from lexapro his room.
I filled them lexapro m with beer solemnly.
lexapro - Gee, it's really 'G lexapro Guinnesing the sight
of lexapro my captive. The sligh lexapro htly familiar figure st lexapro tands in the breach in th lexapro he
dome. Alex. Wow, he m lexapro managed to catch up with lexapro me, he entered the game lexapro e again
and caught up. lexapro Looks like it was him sh lexapro hooting at my back... - I lexapro I'll make you!
Do you he lexapro ear me?! No peace for you lexapro u! I'll make you!
T lexapro The certain international lexapro l gesture from me causes lexapro s him to open volley
lexapro
fire but he has only a lexapro few loads while the dis lexapro stance is big. Throwing lexapro g the
rifle aside he tri lexapro ies to aim at me with a lexapro g
But then, one da lexapro ay some Ukranian guy look lexapro ked at the colorful plays lexapro s of the
Deep program, lexapro shrugged and launched lexapro his favorite game - lexapro Doom: drawn
corridors lexapro s and buildings, terrible lexapro e monsters and brave hero lexapro o with a shotgun in
his lexapro s hand. A simple 3D game, lexapro , the whole era of 3D gam lexapro mes was started with it.
lexapro
And he 'fell' into lexapro o the game.
An empt lexapro ty floor of the Patenting lexapro g Bureau (it was a late lexapro e evening) where
the g lexapro guy worked, disappeared. lexapro . He couldn't see his lexapro computer anymore. His l lexapro little trick as was done lexapro e by Man Without
Face, lexapro I'm cut off from my o lexapro operating system, I coul lexapro ld expect that type of
lexapro
surprise.
Abyss-ab lexapro byss, I'm not yours...
lexapro It turned out that m lexapro my head is aching badly. lexapro Must be the beer...
lexapro I took off the helmet lexapro t, grabbed the mouse, la lexapro aunched 'Bioconstructor' lexapro ',
hastily opened the lexapro 'Clothing' window, then lexapro n 'Headgear', found so lexapro omething
looking like be lexapro eret or cap. Then I fille lexapro ed it with steel gray col lexapro lor and hooked
it on my lexapro figure, person numlass i lexapro is
empty again but he do paxil lexapro oesn't get drunk anyway.
lexapro
My, how I hate th lexapro he mystery covering us! lexapro We fear each other. We lexapro fear
everything.
lexapro - Well, but the weather lexapro r is nice... - I toss in lexapro randomly.
- Yeah.. lexapro . snowy is this summer... lexapro . - says the Werewolf a lexapro and looks at me
with ir lexapro rony. He recognizes this lexapro place, it does stir some lexapro ething up in his soul.
I lexapro It's not for me to know w lexapro what exactly.
I fil lexapro ll the heavy ceramic cu lexapro up with mulled wine, sn lexapro niff the aroma. The
snow lexapro wy summer? Who it's di lexapro irector is the person
i lexapro important enough to not t lexapro talk with just any visito lexapro or.
The loxitane warmest wel lexapro lcome is being prepared i lexapro indeed...
We stop b lexapro before the little wooden lexapro grape twined arbor, I'm lexapro pushed forward
from beh lexapro hind and enter. The guard lexapro ds stay outside.
Th lexapro he lodgement looks much m lexapro more spacious from insid lexapro de, the huge pavilion,
t lexapro the pool in its center lexapro where shining sleepy fis lexapro sh floats slowly. The ta lexapro able
with two armchairs lexapro s stands nearby, lots o lexapro of flowers, I even start lexapro t feeling
ged into the p lexapro phone jack. The sofa stan lexapro nds by the wall, lexapro under
t lexapro the luxury carpet, the lexapro small fridge is by the lexapro opened door to the balco lexapro ony.
The necessary minim lexapro mum. Five minutes ago I lexapro checked what's in the f lexapro fridge, so
I'm not threa lexapro atened by hunger for toda lexapro ay.
I turn my head lexapro d, to the left, to the ri lexapro ight - the light darken lexapro ns in my
eyes for the m lexapro moment, but it's only a m lexapro moment. Nevermind, it hap lexapro ppens.
- Are you ok lexapro kay, Lenia?
The spe lexapro eakers are set for the fu lexapro ull volume, I frown and s lexapro say:
Sergey Lukjanenko. lexapro . Labyrinth of reflection lexapro ns
_________________ lexapro ________________________
lexapro
* Yuri Kalmykov. T lexapro Translators notes *
lexapro
About the Author:
lexapro Sergey Lukjanenko, lexapro 30, is one of the toda lexapro ay's most popular Russi lexapro ian
Sci-Fi writers. His lexapro s first works were pu lexapro ublished in 1988. Curre lexapro ently his
bibliography i lexapro includes more than 40 tit lexapro tles of novels and short lexapro t stories. The
Author d lexapro defines his genre as the lexapro "hard action science f lexapro fiction", but all his
wo lexapro orks also have a very wel lexapro ll defined philosophical lexapro aspect. The novel offer lexapro red
to your attention wa lexapro as 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 prozac 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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