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What&039;s your proof?
Sartrik
That you&039;re all nothing but shadows, I&039; but shackles on the convolutions of my brain All your Rolls-Royces and Lolitas, Ferraris and Berlusconis, all your shaved and scented glaet shafted up the xxx every day underneath the money tree - you made it all out ofto you, but you&039;re the entire deal for me, eh? In my xxx head! But I&039;ll dump you all
Nutscracker
Monster, ht have But I&039;m not a hundred per cent certain
Nutscracker
Translate from the Latin, will you?
Monstradaht here He&039;s trying to say the helmet of horror is the contents of thethat they - the contents - exist, and the mind in which they arise doesn&039;t Or that the mind is noto prove it to?
Monstradamus
Themselves Certainly not the ive a xxx
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And where are they trying to prove it?
Monstradamus
What d&039;you mean, where? In the mind Where else?
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This clih without a bottle For me at least
Sartrik
Listen, Monstradauy! The way you put that! I even understood it h all the way to the end, all those English astrophysicists and the entire xxx Academy of Sciences should be thrown in the sla them away? Who cares about those buffoons
Sartrik
Oho! You&039;re a hard case, aren&039;t you? Theseus, you&039;re Theseus, no tays about it
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You&039;re a real Theseus too, Sartrik Maybe you&039;ve even found the way out?
Sartrik
A long ti around in front of it But when they craay I&039;ll leave
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Monstrada
Monstradamus
Did you see the dwarf?
Ariadne
Yes
Monstrada on the square in front of the fountain You remember, I told you about it It looked dark and oppressive, as though there was a fire there a long tio and afterwards they tried several times to fix it up, but they hadn&039;t been able to It was the sa ruin I can&039;t even say what it was that gavewas new, expensive and chic - like in those glass palaces they rent out for offices The air was cool and clean, there wasn&039;t the slightest s in it at all But somehow I felt if you took the oak panels off the walls you&039;d see all the stoneas blackened with smoke
Monstrada?
Ariadne
I went across to theand looked out Down beloas the fountain with the snakes where I saw Asterisk for the first ti in tubs leading away froe of the city and ended at a huge triuround in front of the arch was a bronze head that must have been the size of a truck There was a stepladder leaning against its ear, and it had a gold star on its forehead with an inscription: &039;The Tomb of the Unknown Helmholtz&039;
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How could you see all that through the ?
Ariadne
I just looked in that direction
Nutscracker
And you could read the words at that distance?
Ariadne
What distances are there in a dream? There aren&039;t any except the ones you dream about I dreamed there was that inscription on the monument&039;s forehead I didn&039;t dream about any distances
Monstradah What else did you see?
Ariadne
The further away from the main street, the fewer houses there were The city boundary was a circular wall, and outside that there was a desert in various tones of beige Further away still there were dark-blue mountains, or perhaps they were clouds in the sunset I didn&039;t have ti else, because then one of the dwarves appeared in the corridor He was in a hurry to get soressive - his loose robe was caught in with a belt that had a little sabre dangling on it He didn&039;t stop, just gestured forthe stairs I asked him a question, but he told me to keep quiet He said his master was under threat - they wanted to kill hi strictly documented I asked anted to kill his master, but he muttered that the reply to that question had to be docue open area with identical shelves of files on all the walls - it looked like some kind of archive There was a kind of double round table in the centre - about fifty centimetres above the table-top there was a smaller disc of wood that could rotate They used to have so of the sort in old canteens so that people couldthe upper disc The dwarf sat down at the table and pointed to the place opposite him I sat down On the table in front of oose-quill pen and a file containing sheets of paper The dwarf had an identical inkwell and file He told me to write down my question and put the sheet of paper on the wooden disc I wrote: &039;Who wants to kill the Minotaur?&039; The quill actually wrote very easily, with a fine line Meanwhile the dwarf took a sheet of paper out of his file and wrote so wooden disc, the dwarf turned it through a hundred and eighty degrees, then he had my question in front of him and I had his answer It was brief: &039;You already know&039; And it ritten on paper headed with a crest Apparently he didn&039;t even need to read my question, he already knew it
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Paper headed with a crest? What was the crest like?
Ariadne
A little star framed in laurel leaves It looked very i There was a motto under the crest: &039;per aspera ad asterisk&039; And there atermarks in the paper And as well as all that, there was a three-figure nue - the blank sheets were numbered Monstradamus, I wanted to ask you, what do those words mean?
Monstradamus
There is an expression &039;per aspera ad astra&039;, h difficulties to the stars&039; And so this version h xxx to the xxx
Monstradamus
Well, that&039;s not exactly a poetic translation What came next, Ariadne?
Ariadne
Next I wrote a question and he wrote an answer Why don&039;t I type theether from the sheets of paper?
Monstradaot the sheets there?
Ariadne
Yes
Monstradaet hold of them?
Ariadne
I don&039;t know When I woke up they were lying beside the bed Perhaps the people who tidy up the rooht the?
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