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look cast next penis big t level, but without passing it the exit
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
A penis big About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30 penis big 0, is one of the today's most popular Russian penis big n
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were publ penis big lished in 1988. Currently his
bibliography inc penis big cludes more than 40 titles of novels and short s penis big stories. The
Author defines his genre as the "h penis big hard action science fiction", but all his
work penis big ks also have a very well defined philosophical as penis big spect. The novel offered
to your attention was penis big written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' penis big of the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is marrie penis big ed, he lives in Moscow.
THE NOV penis big VEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHT penis big TED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESER penis big RVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NO penis big OVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
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Several penis big notes for the reader:
1). My English s penis big sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous o penis big of me to
try to make a translation like this. I penis big It was my love to this book only that
made me t penis big to venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping penis big that this novel is
really worth your kind atte penis big ention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). So penis big ome opinions expressed in this book by the penis big e main or other
characters, as well as some w penis big words/terms used, might be considered offensive penis big
to some Western readers. In fact, one such sit penis big tuation was even showed closer
to the end of penis big the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka penis big 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist penis big t in Russia which fact IMHO makes the life
much penis big easier and slightly reduces the amount of stup penis big pidity that inevitably
presents in this life. penis big Despite that, I definitely had to use the 'soft penis big tened'
terms in my translation in order not to penis big outrage the people (not too much at
least). Bu penis big ut of course, something might have still lea penis big aked out. Please
consider yourselves warned.
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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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