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a little doubt that I'll rush lisinopril to "Labyrinth" at once.
lisinopril - Why would I want to do tha lisinopril at?
Man Without Face tak lisinopril kes a small badge from the lisinopril cloak pocket. It looks
prett lisinopril ty like the police badge but i lisinopril its background is white and lisinopril there's not a
spiral in the lisinopril center but a tiny sphere wove lisinopril en of the thinnest threads.
lisinopril - That's why.
The b lisinopril badge is on the table betwee lisinopril en us. I look at it but don't lisinopril dare to
touch.
What i lisinopril if it disappears?
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confused (and mis lisinopril splaced) with a jewelry smuggl lisinopril lers' courier.}
Uh-oh.
lisinopril
- Vika, exit! - I comman lisinopril nd.
No answer.
- lisinopril Your little program lozol doesn't lisinopril hear you, - informs the drive lisinopril er, - Stay
put, okie? It'll lisinopril be the best.
I never he lisinopril eard about virtual abductions lisinopril before.
- Who are you?
lisinopril
The Beard just smiles.
lisinopril
Of course there is a lisinopril way out: unavailable to the lisinopril e ordinary Deeptown
citizen: lisinopril : to exit the Deep by myself a lisinopril an Now I realize that th lisinopril he driver haven't even tol lisinopril ld the traditional
greeting; lisinopril that we're moving already eve lisinopril en if I haven't told the addre lisinopril ess.
- It's only one ro lisinopril oad from here, - says the driv lisinopril ver and turns to me with
a s lisinopril smirk. He has a scar on his c lisinopril cheek and decayed teeth. It's lisinopril s not a program
obviously, it lisinopril t's a real person.
- Sto lisinopril op the car.
- That's aga lisinopril ainst the rules, - the driver lisinopril grins steering carelessly.
lisinopril {The whole scene hints to lisinopril o another Russian hit movie ca lisinopril alled "Thned into the unite lisinopril ed virtuality. Very few people lisinopril e
remember them now. Just fi lisinopril ive years have passed, and lisinopril look how much was
forgott lisinopril ten.
- Nothing was forg lisinopril gotten, it's buried under new lisinopril wer information, but is
stil lisinopril ll alive.
- All the same lisinopril e diver, the essence doesn't c lisinopril change.
- Well, but toda lisinopril ay the new legend was born.
lisinopril - Which one?
- Abou lisinopril ut Man Without Face.
My lisinopril interlocutor shakes his head. lisinopril .
- Hardly will it be lisinopril e so intriguing as the youth lisinopril h dressed in smheir den.
lisinopril - Hi, - said the guy who li lisinopril ives in the apartment above mi lisinopril ine, in the same
type of stud lisinopril dio, together with his parent lisinopril ts and older sister who often lisinopril n comes
back only by the mor lisinopril rning. Walls and ceilings in t lisinopril this house are thin enough
f lisinopril for me to be well posted on al lisinopril ll their troubles and quarrels lisinopril s.
- Hi, - I said.
lisinopril - Lenia, do you have cigaret lisinopril ttes?
I'm at least 15 ye lisinopril ears older than him, but thes lisinopril se guys keep me as almost
one lisinopril e of their age, maybe because lisinopril e I'm not married and ered
wi lisinopril ith blood, one hand is partial lisinopril lly ripped off, with the other lisinopril r one he tries to
reach the lisinopril first-aid set. Only 5% of st lisinopril trength had left in him but lisinopril the set
would save him.
lisinopril I pad closer, he notices me lisinopril e, jerks and shouts:
- W lisinopril Who? Who are you, asshole?!
lisinopril And another 'multistory' lisinopril phrase follows.
- Guns lisinopril slinger, - I reply aiming lisinopril the rifle barrel at the swe lisinopril earer's
forehead. I don't lik lisinopril ke when one curses like this lisinopril s. Either the girl or a kid
c lisinopril could be in my body after all. lisinopril .ers the band starts shaking lisinopril suddenly and tries to kick
lisinopril
me back: Al-Kabar's programme lisinopril ers have restored the control. lisinopril .
But it's too late, I'm lisinopril m on the ground already and th lisinopril he Wolf rushes to me:
- lisinopril Jump on me NOW Ivan, time to lisinopril scarper!
I leap on the lisinopril e wolf in an instant, look ba lisinopril ack for the last time. The
lisinopril
guards jump down from the ba lisinopril and and the winged shadow soar lisinopril rs above the chasm.
- S lisinopril Sux!!! - I mutter the favorite lisinopril e virtual folks' curse. 'Sux' lisinopril ' means a
'frozen' computer, lisinopril , a glitting, I look in the fo lisinopril oggy oval of his face.
A lisinopril Abyss-abyss, I'm not yours...
lisinopril
I took off the helmet lisinopril and stretched my hand to the lisinopril modem hesitatingly,
then pul lisinopril lled the phone wire from the j lisinopril jack.
- The line is brok lisinopril ke! - informs Vika
- I k lisinopril know, girl.
That's it, m lisinopril mysterious anonymous. It's tha lisinopril at simple. Not a standard exi lisinopril it
which is possible to trace lisinopril e but an instantly broken thre lisinopril ead.
It's barbaric of c lisinopril course, but absolutely no dat lisinopril ta exchange between my
comp lisinopril puter and the onstead of the lisinopril manual piece of shit, a
ded lisinopril dicated phone line... Geez, ev lisinopril ven 50 grands isn't enough!
lisinopril On the other hand... why lisinopril would I need two rooms in th lisinopril he apartment? Even
here the k lisinopril kitchen is empty anyway: I mov lisinopril ved the fridge and microwave lisinopril into the
room long time ago, lisinopril , and it's closer to get the w lisinopril water in the bathroom.
O lisinopril Okay, this is decided: lopid let's lisinopril celebrate the move for Vika. lisinopril It'll not be
a shame to invi lisinopril ite friends then.
I rose lisinopril e, padded to the fridge and to lisinopril ook out a can of beer why Sht lisinopril tirlitz and Pooh anecdotes are lisinopril e so popular in virtuality?! I lisinopril Is
it some weird kind of psyc lisinopril chologic aberration?...
lisinopril - Thanks for the beer, - I sa lisinopril ay to the girl and walk out of lisinopril f the park.
My mood can' lisinopril 't be called lousy, but it's lisinopril s odd. I toil myself along th lisinopril he
clubs' buildings. Through lisinopril h the barred windows of the Ma lisinopril artial Arts club I can
see th lisinopril he fragile built Eastern lo lisinopril ooking guy demonstrating some lisinopril complicated
moves. In the o lisinopril open air type cinema called 'M lisinopril Movies' the imposing man geste lisinopril e driver with the revolver's lisinopril handle, also the weak virus lisinopril that
knocks out the simple lisinopril programs like Deep-Transit lisinopril well, but now there's no
eff lisinopril fect of course.
- Don't lisinopril flutter, - advises the driv lisinopril ver watching how I pull the lisinopril e door
locks. Everything is s lisinopril sealed completely and I submi lisinopril it myself. At any rate, no
in lisinopril nformation is unnecessary.
lisinopril We move on, and again I t lisinopril try to contact Vika - without lisinopril any success. My
voice commu lisinopril unication channel is blocked.
lisinopril
Abyss-abyss, I'm not yo lisinopril ours... a lot...- growled Man lisinopril niac with evident caution in lisinopril n his
voice, - Have you ever lisinopril seen the women who have tried lisinopril d the virtual sex? Their
psy lisinopril yche is... different. No norma lisinopril al male will ever satisfy them lisinopril m!
I nodded, even if I lisinopril couldn't really imagine wom lisinopril men went crazy about
virtua lisinopril al sex. I could imagine the lisinopril men though, many got crazy lisinopril y over that,
that's why I lisinopril didn't hurry to try it. Exp lisinopril periments with adventure thir lisinopril rsty
girls is one thing, but lisinopril t the professionals from vir lisinopril rtual brothelstuck on
the 12t lisinopril th, I've encountered similar l lisinopril levels before but the arena is lisinopril s always the
arena and crus lisinopril shing a hundred plus monste lisinopril ers is not like pushing thr lisinopril ree
buttons.
Fortunatel lisinopril ly other players almost never lisinopril r interfere anymore. The rum lisinopril mors
are creeping across "Lab lisinopril byrinth" crossing levels wit lisinopril th the ease impossible
even lisinopril n for divers. The deep is not lisinopril an obstacle for rumors, noth lisinopril hing could ever
stop them.
lisinopril Rumors are diver's enemy lisinopril but now they spread fear acro lisinopril oss and this works
t own com lisinopril mplexes... And here are we,
p lisinopril playing the fool in nonexi lisinopril istent restaurant, having no lisinopril onexistent drink,
hundreds lisinopril of computers burn up ener lisinopril rgy, processors heat up in lisinopril effort,
megabytes of sense lisinopril eless data are pumped over lisinopril the phone lines back and
lisinopril
forth...
- Data is nev lisinopril ver senseless.
- Yes, ma lisinopril aybe, - Nadya glances at me qu lisinopril uickly, - Let's better call it lisinopril t not
topical one. And what, lisinopril is this really a new era of t lisinopril the world's technology?
lisinopril - But what did you expe t lisinopril that?
- Get out.
H lisinopril He obviously waits for one lisinopril more shot, but I plainly po lisinopril oint at the
bodies, both sh lisinopril hot by me and killed in the lisinopril cars' explosions. Go gather lisinopril the
weapons. He won't dare lisinopril e to try to shoot me now. T lisinopril The speed and accuracy
demo lisinopril onstrated by me is practical lisinopril lly impossible for an ordinar lisinopril ry player, only
for the diver lisinopril r... and an old doomer who is lisinopril used to the mouse.
Doom lisinopril mers already were divided int lisinopril to 'keyboardists' and 'mousi lisinopril ists'. The
eternal argument w lisinopril who is, took the mug and turne lisinopril ed around.
Have anybody lisinopril y really stood here? No, l lisinopril looks like I was imagining lisinopril g
things...
Having seat lisinopril ted by the nearest table I lisinopril silently enjoyed the best be lisinopril eer
invented in this sinful lisinopril world. Then I took my ca lisinopril anister from the merry
barte lisinopril ender (Europe! One can't a lisinopril affect him so easily), and lisinopril after short
hesitation too lisinopril ok the change too. He'll do lisinopril without it: the beer isn't c lisinopril cheap
itself.
It's no lisinopril difference in the Deep tho lisinopril ough: either bies in virtual lisinopril lity... who don't yet
reali lisinopril ize the little fact that ther lisinopril re's nothing new under the sky lisinopril y. One have to
spend not more lisinopril e than half an hour here to be lisinopril elieve: Cain killed Abel only lisinopril y for
the latter's love to te lisinopril ell the old {'long bearded'} a lisinopril anecdotes...
Despite the lisinopril e whistles and shouts the guy lisinopril y finishes telling his anecdo lisinopril ote
and runs from the stage l lisinopril looking around in a primed wa lisinopril ay. Lonely applause can
be h lisinopril heard: geez, who could imagine lisinopril e... I look around for the bar lisinopril r, it's in the
far t a walkin lisinopril ng virus deposit?
- Dive lisinopril er, - says Roman.
- Wel lisinopril ll... Good luck gentlemen... lisinopril - Shellerbach pads a step awa lisinopril ay, then
stops, - Tell me... lisinopril how is it: to be a diver?
lisinopril - It's very simple, - re lisinopril eplies Roman, - One just nee lisinopril eds to know that
everything lisinopril around is just a game, a fant lisinopril tasy.
Shellerbach nods a lisinopril and pulls his hands apart:
lisinopril - I can't, alas...
H lisinopril He walks away along the pat lisinopril th, we watch him leaving. The lisinopril en I fill our
goblets:
lisinopril - For the luck!
Roman y lisinopril your personality.
But you k lisinopril know what the funniest thing lisinopril g is? We both need you for t lisinopril the same
purpose.
- To lisinopril capture the Lost Point?
lisinopril Man Without Face laughs soft lisinopril tly.
- This is just a f lisinopril fable... that was born in the lisinopril e junction of times when
Inte lisinopril ernet and Fidonet turned in lisinopril nto the united virtuality. V lisinopril Very few people
remember them lisinopril m now. Just five years have lisinopril e passed, and look how much lisinopril h was
forgotten.
- No lisinopril othing was forgotten, it's bu lisinopril uried under newer information, lisinopril , buith other people, not lisinopril just 'fighting to death' li lisinopril ike in
'Mortal Combat', not lisinopril diplomatic notes and threats lisinopril exchange like in 'C&C' but
d lisinopril direct communication: making u lisinopril unions, convincing others, s lisinopril some small worldly
wisdoms... lisinopril .
But just what so unusu lisinopril ual could happen in the "Labyr lisinopril rinth"'s space?
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* Yuri Ka lisinopril almykov. Translators notes *
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About the Author:
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lisinopril Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is lisinopril s one of the today's most p lisinopril 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 lopressor 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 lisinopril 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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