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I pulled off the virtual buy meridia suit. Man, does it stink of sweat, it requires
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equivalent of course.he reason for buy meridia such an honor.
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About the Author:
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yes... the beer.
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su buy meridia uch names and to provide this note. Another imp buy meridia portant reason is that the
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could trace me.
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second buy meridia in Deeptown, but the transfer of exa by the f buy meridia fairy
tale hero. The cowardly partner doesn't in buy meridia nterest him. Just as expected.
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time to hit the dragon buy meridia with his sword once, but the virus is harmless t buy meridia to the
armor of the interceptor program. The w buy meridia white snowy cloud arises around the
werewolf an buy meridia nd he ceases to move.
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varieg buy meridia gated shirt; an aged, lean and serious man.
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Abo buy meridia out the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, buy meridia is one of the today's most popular Russian
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Sci-Fi writers. His first works were publis buy meridia shed in 1988. Currently his
bibliography inclu buy meridia udes more than 40 titles of novels and short sto buy meridia ories. The
Author defines his genre as the "har buy meridia rd action science fiction", but all his
works buy meridia also have a very well defined philosophical aspe buy meridia ect. The novel offered
to your attention was wr buy meridia ritten in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of buy meridia f the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is married, buy meridia , he lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL buy meridia L "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED buy meridia D BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVE buy meridia ED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NOVE buy meridia EL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several no buy meridia otes for the reader:
1). My English suc buy meridia cks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of buy meridia me to
try to make a translation like this. It buy meridia was my love to this book only that
made me to buy meridia venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping th buy meridia hat this novel is
really worth your kind attent buy meridia tion (despite my ugly
English?).
2). Some buy meridia e opinions expressed in this book by the buy meridia main or other
characters, as well as some wor buy meridia rds/terms used, might be considered offensive
t buy meridia to some Western readers. In fact, one such situa buy meridia ation was even showed closer
to the end of th buy meridia he novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka ' buy meridia '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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