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salary.
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but ve farmer homeowner insurance ery, very effective. We're about farmer homeowner insurance t to start its production but on farmer homeowner insurance nly after
the less effective me farmer homeowner insurance edicinece is ice cold and doesn' farmer homeowner insurance 't promise anything good.
farmer homeowner insurance I sit down on the floor, squeez farmer homeowner insurance ze my head with hands and whispe farmer homeowner insurance er:
- Assholes... Fucking farmer homeowner insurance assholes..
- We don't car farmer homeowner insurance re about your pranks in the Deep farmer homeowner insurance p, diver. The theft is bad,
but farmer homeowner insurance t it was high time for Urman to farmer homeowner insurance get knocked on the nose.
farmer farmer homeowner insurance homeowner insurance I'm whining quietly, rocking fr farmer homeowner insurance rom side to side.
Man With farmer homeowner insurance hout Face ignores my performance farmer homeowner insurance e.
- The crime always exis farmer homeowner insurance sted, it exists now and will exi farmer homeowner insurance ist. I'm not Jesus
and I don't farmer homeowner insurance pretend to level I was
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the 12th, I've encount farmer homeowner insurance tered similar levels before but farmer homeowner insurance the arena is always the
arena farmer homeowner insurance and crushing a hundred plus farmer homeowner insurance s monsters is not like pushin farmer homeowner insurance ng three
buttons.
Fortun farmer homeowner insurance nately other players almost nev farmer homeowner insurance ver interfere anymore. The rum farmer homeowner insurance mors
are creeping across "Labyr farmer homeowner insurance rinth" crossing levels with t farmer homeowner insurance the ease impossible
even for d farmer homeowner insurance divers. The deep is not an obsta farmer homeowner insurance acle for rumors, nothing could farmer homeowner insurance ever
stop the', the Chilean on farmer homeowner insurance ne. This girl has a good taste.
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- I see you here pretty o farmer homeowner insurance often, - informs the girl.
farmer homeowner insurance DZZZ! the alarm signal in my h farmer homeowner insurance head.
- Amazing, - I note, farmer homeowner insurance , - I don't visit this place so farmer homeowner insurance often really.
- But I'm h farmer homeowner insurance here almost always.
Lies.
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I can exit virtuality rig farmer homeowner insurance ght now and check a couple of do farmer homeowner insurance ozens of control
photos stored farmer homeowner insurance in the computer: the visitors farmer homeowner insurance s of the bar for the last two farmer homeowner insurance o
months. It's always useful to farmer homeowner insurance o remember new faces. But what farmer homeowner insurance for, I know well
uple of hours farmer homeowner insurance s, a day... Maniac who set
his farmer homeowner insurance timer for 36 hours was already farmer homeowner insurance an exception. The waking of som farmer homeowner insurance mebody who
have spent two days farmer homeowner insurance s in the deep is.... a foul smel farmer homeowner insurance lling sight.
Of course it farmer homeowner insurance is possible to break and disabl farmer homeowner insurance le the timer. Or to break it
an farmer homeowner insurance nd add a couple of zeros to the farmer homeowner insurance e number '48' but such kamikaze farmer homeowner insurance e are rarely
found and their e farmer homeowner insurance first time homeowner end is mournful.
Like Unfo farmer homeowner insurance ortunate's.
It's impossibl farmer homeowner insurance le to pass "Labyrinth of Death" farmer homeowner insurance " in a single attempt, one
can farmer homeowner insurance n't just have strength o.
farmer homeowner insurance But it was him who gave rise to farmer homeowner insurance o the deep. Ten second clip dis farmer homeowner insurance splayed on
the screen is harmle farmer homeowner insurance ess by itself. If shown on TV (I farmer homeowner insurance I heard it was dared to be
done farmer homeowner insurance e in some countries), the TV wa farmer homeowner insurance atcher won't feel anything and farmer homeowner insurance d will not
become a movie char farmer homeowner insurance racter. Dmitry himself just wa farmer homeowner insurance anted to create a pleasant
med farmer homeowner insurance ditation background for his co farmer homeowner insurance omputer, and he did, let it circ farmer homeowner insurance culate along
the Net and didn't farmer homeowner insurance t suspect anything for two more farmer homeowner insurance weeks.
But then, one day farmer homeowner insurance some Ukranian guy looked ao-poo farmer homeowner insurance o
into the virtual suit... EWW. farmer homeowner insurance .
Why did Man Without Face farmer homeowner insurance e set the alarm?
Nothing farmer homeowner insurance terrible have happened yet any farmer homeowner insurance yway, it's just yet another self farmer homeowner insurance f
confident game addict.
farmer homeowner insurance - Does he sit like this for a l farmer homeowner insurance long time?
- For almost 2 farmer homeowner insurance 24 hours, - nodded Guillermo, farmer homeowner insurance , - Yes, it's strange. He
trie farmer homeowner insurance ed to pass the level for five t farmer homeowner insurance times... then submitted himself farmer homeowner insurance f... sat by
the entrance.
farmer homeowner insurance - And what did you do?
- farmer homeowner insurance - We've sent Anatol, - Guillerm farmer homeowner insurance mo pulls his hands apart, - r farmer homeowner insurance round?...
- The owner of t farmer homeowner insurance this restaurant must be a romant farmer homeowner insurance tic person,- says Nadya.
- farmer homeowner insurance - Of course.
- Leonid, al farmer homeowner insurance ll that you've mentioned is rig farmer homeowner insurance ght. But the right place for
al farmer homeowner insurance ll these pleasures is in reality farmer homeowner insurance y.
- Reality is not always farmer homeowner insurance s affordable.
- Just as v farmer homeowner insurance virtuality is, Lenia. I don't k farmer homeowner insurance know where you get money from
t farmer homeowner insurance that allows you to visit here so farmer homeowner insurance o often, and it's none of my bus farmer homeowner insurance siness anyway,
but billions of farmer homeowner insurance people never were in the deep.
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the hel farmer homeowner insurance ll betrayal is in visiting the v farmer homeowner insurance virtual brothel? It's all unreal farmer homeowner insurance l there!
But Maniac's spou farmer homeowner insurance use got hurt anyway...
We farmer homeowner insurance sat by the table, Maniac sea farmer homeowner insurance arched the fridge, got the pa farmer homeowner insurance ack of
franks, a piece of chee farmer homeowner insurance ese, then brought two huge clay farmer homeowner insurance glasses from his room.
I fille farmer homeowner insurance ed them with beer solemnlter re farmer homeowner insurance eceived the order from Cardinal farmer homeowner insurance l Richelieu (SP???)
saying "Wh farmer homeowner insurance hatever is done by this person w farmer homeowner insurance was done for the benefit of Fran farmer homeowner insurance nce",
i messy ideas
about the farmer homeowner insurance second phone line and second m farmer homeowner insurance modem - in order for Vika to be farmer homeowner insurance able
to download mail and do farmer homeowner insurance some other simple tasks while farmer homeowner insurance I'm traveling in the
deep.
farmer homeowner insurance It's a bit far too much thou farmer homeowner insurance ugh. Even Maniac doesn't have farmer homeowner insurance second phone
line.
By th farmer homeowner insurance he way, I owe him beer, it look farmer homeowner insurance ks very much like he saved my farmer homeowner insurance life
yesterday.
And it' farmer homeowner insurance 's better not to procrastinate farmer homeowner insurance with it: I've got the suspicio farmer homeowner insurance on
that I'll be able to treat h farmer homeowner insurance him with nothing more than just farmer homeowner insurance t 'Navigatorrtuality, indifferen farmer homeowner insurance nt to any calls,
fires, floods farmer homeowner insurance s and other annoying trifles of farmer homeowner insurance life.
- Yes?
- Mani farmer homeowner insurance iac, it's me.
Hacker's voi farmer homeowner insurance ice softened a little.
- H farmer homeowner insurance Hi Lenia, what's up?
- The farmer homeowner insurance e new virus for your collection. farmer homeowner insurance .
- Toss it here! - said M farmer homeowner insurance Maniac, hanging up instantly.
farmer homeowner insurance I started the modem and sen farmer homeowner insurance nt Al-Kabar's surprise to greedy farmer homeowner insurance y hands of the
virus creator, t farmer homeowner insurance then opened the fridge, took out farmer homeowner insurance t bread and sausage and moved
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to the kitchen to set the teap farmer homeowner insurance pot on the stovepeakers.
- farmer homeowner insurance - No. Hold on.
In the real farmer homeowner insurance l world my room is the same as farmer homeowner insurance s in the virtual space. The
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difference is though: it's not farmer homeowner insurance t a warm Deeptown's summer even farmer homeowner insurance ning behind the
windows but the farmer homeowner insurance e rainy St. Peterburgh autumn. I farmer homeowner insurance It's drizzling outside, the car
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honks in the distance. I open farmer homeowner insurance ned the fridge and took a can o farmer homeowner insurance of Sprite. Let's
really drink.. farmer homeowner insurance .. I couldn't resist the urge farmer homeowner insurance to look from the balcony. Of farmer homeowner insurance f
course, the empty can that I farmer homeowner insurance threw out inin "Labyrinth",
th farmer homeowner insurance hat your divers fails virus soft farmer homeowner insurance t
which I drag out of him by al farmer homeowner insurance ll cunning means.
- How mu farmer homeowner insurance uch simpler would it be if the farmer homeowner insurance deep wouldn't be so strong of a farmer homeowner insurance an
addiction, - I was thinking farmer homeowner insurance in the cab on my way home. - Ho farmer homeowner insurance ow much more right
and simple. farmer homeowner insurance ... There wouldn't be a div farmer homeowner insurance vision into the lucky and t farmer homeowner insurance the
unfortunate ones which can farmer homeowner insurance n't be overcome. There wouldn't farmer homeowner insurance be that ridiculous
situation: farmer homeowner insurance excellent programmers not bein farmer homeowner insurance ng able to cross the border betw farmer homeowner insurance ween
reality and illusion, and farmer homeowner insurance clumsy guys like myselfup in so farmer homeowner insurance ome ten minutes, when I start to farmer homeowner insurance o worry already.
I knew him onl farmer homeowner insurance ly under a nick 'Hardened', and farmer flood insurance homeowner insurance he knows me as 'Gunslinger'. farmer homeowner insurance .
The buyer is tidy and imperce farmer homeowner insurance eptible, wearing a regular suit farmer homeowner insurance t, having hard to
remember face farmer homeowner insurance e: a young guy with a briefcase. farmer homeowner insurance .
- Good evening, Gunsl farmer homeowner insurance linger! - the voice is too farmer homeowner insurance even: Hardened
communicates farmer homeowner insurance through the interpreter program farmer homeowner insurance m.
- Good morning, - I farmer homeowner insurance answer looking at my watch. Jus farmer homeowner insurance st a small mutual
game, to fig farmer homeowner insurance gure out the diver's time, tsee. farmer homeowner insurance .
We leave the fog. The r farmer homeowner insurance rails are going along crumbling farmer homeowner insurance embankment, the
station buil farmer homeowner insurance lding is ahead burned like th farmer homeowner insurance he Reichstag building after th farmer homeowner insurance he
storm. The likeness is impro farmer homeowner insurance oved by the red flag on the dom farmer homeowner insurance me. Either it's an
entourage de farmer homeowner insurance etail (some Westerners are stil farmer homeowner insurance ll setting their scores with t farmer homeowner insurance the
communism), or some Bolsh farmer homeowner insurance hevik have decided to commemorat farmer homeowner insurance te the revolution
anniversary farmer homeowner insurance y. The latter is more likely, No farmer homeowner insurance ovember 7th is in three days.
farmer homeowner insurance - Now look attentively an farmer homeowner insurance nll mutual
game, to figure out farmer homeowner insurance the diver's time, to determine farmer homeowner insurance what time zone he's in is
not farmer homeowner insurance too little to know already.
farmer homeowner insurance - Oh, don't I really love y farmer homeowner insurance your humor?.. - Hardened sits o farmer homeowner insurance on the third
chair, looks at me questionably, - Have the crop ripened?
- Quite heavy did those apples turn out to be, - I take the diskette
out and put it on the table, - To be honest, I would expect these troubles
to be more appreciated...
- Didn't we have a deal? Six thousand dollars.
e immersion? - came out of the
speakers.
- No. Hold on.
In the real world my room is the same as in the virtual space. The
difference is though: it's not a warm Deeptown's summer evening behind the
windows but the rainy St. Peterburgh autumn. It's drizzling outside, the car
honks in the distance. I opened the fridge and took a can of Sprite. Let's
really drink... I couldn't resist the urge to look from the balcony. Of
course, the empty can that I threw out inin "Labyrinth",
that your divers failed to solve it. I was asked to render an assistance to
you.
A pause again. I'm anonymous and it's risky to let me into unpleasant
sides of the Company's life but Guillermo has a 'good nose' for troubles and
methods of overcoming them.
- You'll sign a single-time contract? - his tone becomes quick and
business-like.
- Yes.
- Complete nondisclosure of the situation, - he adds, - with all
possible penalties.
-it Mommy... well okay, we have quarreled a little..
- Why so?
- Ah... I've passed the red light...
I nodded: it's very difficult to live in the deep and be married. What
the hell betrayal is in visiting the virtual brothel? It's all unreal there!
But Maniac's spouse got hurt anyway...
We sat by the table, Maniac searched the fridge, got the pack of
franks, a piece of cheese, then brought two huge clay glasses from his room.
I filled them with beer solemnlter received the order from Cardinal Richelieu (SP???)
saying "Whatever is done by this person was done for the benefit of France",
it was a bit less cool.
The legendary Complete Licence Medal is before me: the right for just
anything that's possible to do in the deep.
Friedrich Urman would open the door and escort me to the bridge
personally if he saw this badge.
He probably would hire killers later though in order to settle the
scores with me but in theSergey 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 farmer insurance 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 florida homeowner insurance 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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