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really drink... I Blood Pressure couldn't resist the urge to look from Blood Pressure the balcony. Of
course, the empty can th Blood Pressure hat I threw out into the street in virtuali Blood Pressure ity, is not
therehout 'seeing' the target Blood Pressure t. Good
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effect of course.
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lost... A Blood Pressure And about the Invisible Boss?
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side. The dragon has three heads - Blood Pressure - obviously three human operators
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viruses and to Blood Pressure ough protection. It slows down just a littl Blood Pressure le above the lake.
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too many viruses, but we b Blood Pressure both start losing the nerve.
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t Blood Pressure the magic blue light. Glimmering for me Blood Pressure only. I approach it, put my hand
into t Blood Pressure the hollow and grab the big heavy packag Blood Pressure ge. Then I change into white
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orange sparks, Blood Pressure , the young and cute face but nothing speci Blood Pressure ial. I'm tired of the
model beauty.
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do too..
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edg Blood Pressure ge of the palm motionless.
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th Blood Pressure hat allows you to visit here so often, and Blood Pressure it's none of my business anyway,
but bill Blood Pressure lions of people never were in the deep.
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other Blood Pressure company's employees.
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pro Blood Pressure oblems might arise in "Labyrinth".
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into squares is a br Blood Pressure rick wall. The blue above is the sky. Blue Blood Pressure pants - jeans.
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postcard virus and ful, but I know wha Blood Pressure at is behind
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about Blood Pressure t their adventures in the drawn world?
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around.
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Roman drinking. But he j Blood Pressure just
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comfortably and to dissolve in Blood Pressure the thin air afterwards. We must run an Blood Pressure nd
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trap now, at the very end Blood Pressure d of the level...
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player doesn't understand me. Blood Pressure . I can't see the face from behind his mask Blood Pressure k but
even if I could, the drawn face wi Blood Pressure ill say nothing about his nationality but
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sewer, Blood Pressure in the booth I find two chargers, a Blood Pressure and a sandwich wrapped in
transparent w Blood Pressure wrapping is in the locomotive. No people or Blood Pressure r monsters show up yet
and this is odd.
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second, Blood Pressure , then dash inside.
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About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanen Blood Pressure nko, 30, is one of the today's most pop Blood Pressure pular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first Blood Pressure t works were published in 1988. Curren Blood Pressure ntly his
bibliography includes more than 4 Blood Pressure 40 titles of novels and short stories. Th Blood Pressure he
Author defines his genre as the "hard Blood Pressure action science fiction", but all his
wor Blood Pressure rks also have a very well defined philosoph Blood Pressure hical aspect. The novel offered
to your a Blood Pressure attention was written in 1997 and became th Blood Pressure he 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. 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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