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methods of ove cardura ercoming them.
cardura
- You cardura u'll sign a si cardura ingle-time cont cardura tract? - his t cardura tone becomes q cardura quick and
bus cardura siness-like.
cardura - Yes.
cardura - Complete cardura nondisclosure cardura of the situa cardura ation, - he a cardura adds, - with cardura all
possible cardura e penalties.
cardura - Yes...
cardura
- Please cardura Gunslinger, - cardura he points at h cardura his table. I p cardura pad closer bein cardura ng sure
that i cardura it'll be now wh cardura hen I'll sign t cardura the cooperation cardura n documents but cardura t Willy points cardura s
at the mon cardura nitor in the m cardura middle. - Thi cardura is is 33rd le cardura evel of "Labyr cardura rinth" Mr
Guns cardura s start to em cardura merge from the cardura e wall: Al-Kab cardura bar's
security cardura y program. I ju cardura ump forward in cardura a desperate a cardura attempt to pass cardura s between the
cardura
spears.
cardura Abyss-abyss, I cardura I'm not yours.. cardura ..
The ai cardura ir conditioner cardura blows icy air cardura out. A slowly cardura y moving strip cardura is on the
scr cardura reens - percent cardura tage of transmi cardura itted data, and cardura d the gap, cont cardura tracting rapaci cardura itly
under it cardura - the comm cha cardura annel being ti cardura ightened. This cardura s is how the be cardura eauty of the
m cardura most intense cardura virtual fights cardura s looks like cardura in reality. St cardura tripes, charac cardura cters,
digits. cardura . The battlitin cardura ng the virtual cardura brothel? It's cardura all unreal the cardura ere!
But cardura Maniac's spous cardura se got hurt any cardura yway...
W cardura We sat by th cardura he table, Mania cardura ac searched the cardura e fridge, got cardura t the pack of cardura f
franks, a pi cardura iece of cheese, cardura , then brought cardura two huge clay cardura glasses from h cardura his room.
I fi cardura illed them with cardura h beer solemnly cardura y.
- Gee, cardura , it's really ' cardura 'Guinness'... cardura - admitted Ma cardura aniac drawing t cardura the letter
'M' cardura ' on the thick cardura foam.
- cardura For the Love, cardura Shurka.
cardura - Um-gm... - M cardura Maniac said glo cardura oomily and drai cardura ined his glass, cardura , - Yeah. Love cardura e.
Shiompletel cardura ly. Those who cardura o can surface cardura from the deep cardura p on
their own cardura n. The divers.
cardura
People l cardura like me, for in cardura nstance.
cardura The wolf smirk cardura ks to me, - Got cardura t your whistle cardura wet a little?
cardura
- Yup.
cardura
I examine cardura e myself: is cardura everything fi cardura ine? My body cardura in virtuality cardura - the
simple cardura e drawing, tra cardura anslated to on cardura ne or another cardura point of Dee cardura eptown or its cardura s
suburbs by cardura the computer, cardura but the sword cardura on the belt an cardura nd little thing cardura gs in the
bag cardura are not just cardura simple pictur cardura res. These are cardura shortcuts, p cardura program launche cardura erste Licence M cardura Medal is befor cardura re me: the rig cardura ght for just
a cardura anything that's cardura s possible to d cardura do in the deep. cardura .
Friedri cardura ich Urman wou cardura uld open the cardura door and esc cardura cort me to th cardura he bridge
pers cardura sonally if he s cardura saw this badge. cardura .
He prob cardura bably would h cardura hire killers la cardura ater though in cardura n order to se cardura ettle the
scor cardura res with me but cardura t in the deep h cardura he would be ext cardura tremely polite. cardura .
I've n cardura never seen the cardura Medal with my cardura y own eyes befo cardura ore. I know tha cardura at Dmitry
Dibe cardura enko received cardura the same one cardura in his time: cardura for the creat cardura tion of the ys cardura s Alex from beh cardura hind my
back, cardura , - The trap i cardura is there for cardura sure. You kno cardura ow, everybody cardura needs the spar cardura re
charger...
cardura
- I know cardura w, - I say turn cardura ning around. I cardura shoot twice a cardura and the alread cardura dy aimed
gun f cardura falls from the cardura e hand of my s cardura short-time ally cardura y. I bend dow cardura wn to him. Ale cardura ex
gulps the a cardura air with his mo cardura outh looking at cardura t me with sens cardura seless eyes. Th cardura he program
giv cardura ves him 5 mor cardura re seconds to cardura understand hi cardura is defeat. - An cardura nd in fact, I l cardura like
King too, cardura , - I inform hi cardura im picking up h cardura his gun.
cardura That's all. I cardura had one s a bi cardura it far too much cardura h though. Even cardura casodex Maniac doesn' cardura 't have second cardura d phone
line.
cardura
By the w cardura way, I owe him cardura beer, it look cardura ks very much cardura like he saved cardura my life
yeste cardura erday.
An cardura nd it's better cardura r not to procr cardura rastinate with cardura it: I've got cardura the suspicion
cardura
that I'll be cardura able to treat cardura him with noth cardura hing more than cardura just 'Navigato cardura or' in a
week. cardura ... well, quite cardura e a beer too, a cardura a strong one, w cardura with original t cardura taste...
cardura I turned the cardura computer on, c cardura connected to cardura the Internet cardura and transferre cardura ed
$5000 to m cardura my St. Peters cardura sburg know what cardura t exactly
are cardura they: they ne cardura ever fly closer cardura r. The table s cardura stands by the s cardura steep, there a cardura are
bottles of cardura f Gin, Tonic a cardura and Absolut-Pep cardura pper on it. Al cardura lso, a big nic cardura ckel plated
th cardura hermos full of cardura f mulled wine: cardura : a tasty one, cardura with cinnamon, cardura , vanilla, pep cardura pper,
coriande cardura er and nutmeg. cardura Three wattled cardura chairs are by cardura the table, we cardura sit and look
cardura
at the river.
cardura
Beautifu cardura ul.
The w cardura white foam on cardura the rocks, th cardura he chilly wind, cardura , the full gob cardura blet in my
ha cardura and, bluish g cardura grey clouds s cardura swirling above. cardura . It'll be sno cardura oeep: a tiny
p cardura program influe cardura encing human cardura subconsciousne cardura ess. They say cardura he was crazy cardura about
Castane cardura eda's books, li cardura iked to medita cardura ate and smoked cardura d grass. I sure cardura ely believe in
cardura
it. His forme cardura er friends con cardura nfess that he w cardura was cynical an cardura nd lazy, a slo cardura oven and
very cardura so-so professi cardura ional. In this cardura I do believe t cardura too.
But cardura it was him who cardura o gave rise to cardura the deep. Ten cardura n second clip d cardura displayed on
t cardura the screen is h cardura harmless by its cardura self. If shown cardura on TV (I heard cardura d it was dared cardura to be
done in cardura n some countri cardura ies), the TV wa cardura atcher wont of cardura f Al-Kabar's or cardura rchards.
cardura It turned out cardura to be impossib cardura ble to kill th cardura he security pr cardura rograms withou cardura ut
destroying cardura the file. I ha cardura ad to just knoc cardura ck them out, di cardura isable them. Th cardura hen I got
bus cardura sy with the inn cardura ner surprise. cardura I cut the file cardura e into twenty cardura pieces, extrac cardura cialis cted
the guar cardura rd program. It cardura turned out t cardura to be an absolu cardura utely unfamilia cardura ar polymorph
v cardura virus which (a cardura and it was m cardura most unpleasan cardura nt) have manag cardura ged to stick t cardura to my
compute cardura er. After two cardura hours of int cardura tensive work, cardura interrupted on cardura nly twice - to
cardura
take his fee cardura et, that
the cardura health potion cardura n is bitter and cardura d loathsome, t cardura that the armor cardura turned out to cardura be
made of th cardura hin metal plate cardura es and is prett cardura ty lightweight cardura - but a little cardura e too baggy
an cardura nd has uncomfor cardura rtable ties on cardura n the back. In cardura around three cardura hours the sho cardura otgun
trigger cardura started to j cardura jam, he had to cardura o hit it slowly cardura y and carefully cardura y, moving the
cardura
finger from si cardura ide to side.
cardura By 5 am he cardura e finished the cardura e game. The mo cardura onsters were ca cardura ast down. The cardura game
menu ha cardura ad appeared on cardura n the stone wal cardura ll before him cardura and he pushed cardura th who would cardura like to lie cardura flat in bed w cardura with high tempe cardura erature and
ru cardura unny nose, how cardura do you think?
cardura
- Not m cardura me at least, - cardura Shellerbach Th cardura he Hardened's f cardura face changes. N cardura Now he's
an ag cardura ged man with cardura the resolute cardura but nervous f cardura face. - But I a cardura assumed that th cardura he
diver's wor cardura rd is piously.
cardura
- I don' cardura 't deny it. I'l cardura ll give you the cardura e file, - with cardura a slight knock cardura k I send
the d cardura diskette across cardura s the table, - cardura But next time cardura e not a single cardura diver will eve cardura en
move a fing cardura ger for you. Yo cardura ou violate our cardura ethics, Mr Sh cardura hellerbach. A o cardura one guy's comp. cardura ... hardly mana cardura aged to get my cardura y
ass outta t cardura there. - Mania cardura ac was brief, h cardura he locked the cardura door, glance cardura ed at the
cani cardura ister and asked cardura d sympathetical cardura lly, - Dire str cardura raits again?
cardura - No, not cardura really.
cardura - I have a cou cardura uple of bottles cardura s of 'Baltic'.. cardura ..
- I's cardura s 'Guinness' cardura here, - I dec cardura clared proudly. cardura . Maniac looke cardura ed at the
can cardura nister thoughtf cardura fully and hurle cardura ed:
- You cardura u pervert...
cardura I followed cardura d him to the sm cardura mall neat kitch cardura hen and asked c cardura cautiously:
cardura - Where's.. cardura .. yours...?
cardura - Withe f cardura fuel tank in
cardura
virtuality th cardura han in reality cardura but when you s cardura shoot at the dr cardura rawn silhouette cardura es, this
is th cardura he task for a k cardura kid.
deep cardura p
Enter
cardura
What the cardura hell, didn't I cardura I tell you to s cardura stop?!
- cardura Stop! - I shou cardura ut to the drive cardura er.
He st cardura tops right bef cardura fore the burnin cardura ng cars and tur cardura rns around. Ev cardura ven through
th cardura he dark glasses cardura s of the mask t cardura terror and admi cardura iration can be cardura seen.
- cardura How did you do cardura o that?
- cardura - Get out.
cardura He obviously cardura y waits for o cardura one more shot, cardura , but I plain cardura nly point at cardura the
ountries), cardura , the TV watche cardura er won't feel cardura anything and cardura will not
bec cardura come a movie ch cardura haracter. Dmitr cardura ry himself jus cardura st wanted to c cardura create a pleas cardura sant
meditatio cardura on background cardura for his compu cardura uter, and he di cardura id, let it circ cardura culate along
t cardura the Net and did cardura dn't suspect an cardura nything for two cardura o more weeks.
cardura
But then, cardura , one day some cardura Ukranian guy l cardura looked at the c cardura colorful plays cardura of the
Deep cardura cardura program, shru cardura ugged and laun cardura nched his fav cardura vorite game - cardura - Doom: drawn cardura n
corridors an cardura nd buildings, t cardura terrible monste cardura ers and brave h cardura hero with a sh cardura h' color.
The cardura fur is felted cardura here and there cardura e, a burdock is cardura s stuck to the cardura right forepaw. cardura .
- Shou cardura uldn't I eat y cardura you, Mr Nice cardura Guy? - asks t cardura the wolf and b cardura bares his
teet cardura th, his fangs a cardura are yellow like cardura e smoker's, one cardura e is missing to cardura otally.
I cardura I improvise moc cardura ckingly, - Why cardura would thou bra cardura ag emptily, run cardura n thouself onto cardura o
my mighty sw cardura word? Better se cardura erve me well!
cardura
The wolf cardura f smiles and cardura sits down, - cardura And what the cardura payment will b cardura be, the
mighty cardura y warrior?
cardura - Three gran cardura nds each, - I i cardura inform him.
cardura The woumil cardura liation, -
It' cardura 's stupid to b cardura botch up Schwa cardura artzenegger or cardura Stallone from cardura m yourself, cialis jelly and cardura d I
can't aff cardura ford hiring the cardura e image special cardura list.
- T cardura The Deep itself cardura f is expensive cardura enough.
cardura She calls virt cardura tuality with a cardura Russian term a cardura and I like that cardura t...
...B cardura But not her ove cardura erall behavior. cardura ...
I shr cardura rug. What a str cardura range talk.
cardura - Excuse me cardura e... you're Rus cardura ssian, right? - cardura - asks the girl cardura l.
I nod cardura d. There are lo cardura ots of Russian cardura ns in virtuali cardura ity: nowhere el cardura lse in the
wor cardura rld the computer time usage is contes an armchair to me then pads
to the window looking at the city poured by blood colored blaze, - So,
you're diver?
I nod.
- This is very interesting. Unusual! - Willy raises his forefinger, -
Everybody look for divers, everybody have requests, business, questions...
you came to us by yourself.
I stay silent.
Willy turns around and looks at me.
- You have a nice suit Gunslinger, - he says, - It'd be good to add...
a small cap to it. A small gray cape you get money from
that allows you to visit here so often, and it's none of my business anyway,
but billions of people never were in the deep.
- Millions of people never saw a TV set.
- Virtuality must NOT be an artificial substitution of reality, - says
Nadya with conviction.
- Yes, sure. Let's turn the paupers and miserable ones into information
storage, let's become impulses in the electronic network...
- Leonid, you know the teaching of Alexandrians through heato let pass or to crash the uncalled
guest...
- Hey, Ivan The Prince, I'm in hurry! - shouts the wolf.
Right, it's high time to act. So far the program hurled me back
independently, but the next time the real Al-Kabar's programmers might take
over, both 'virtualists' and conservative ones...
- Animate the Shadow, - I order.
The dark silhouette on the palm stirs, gains the volume, stands up,
fills with color. I make an ugly face to my copy, it grimaces iSergey 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 cialis soft tabs 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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