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Prologue

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...is the best that Corporal Bobby Shaftoe can do on short notice he's standing on the running board, gripping his Springfield with one hand and the rearview mirror with the other, so counting the syllables on his fingers is out of the question. Is "tires" one syllable or two? How about "wail?" The truck finally makes up its mind not to tip over, and thuds back onto four wheels. The wail and the moment are lost. Bobby can still hear the coolies singing, though, and now too there's the gunlike snicking of the truck's clutch linkage as Private Wiley downshifts. Could Wiley be losing his nerve? And, in the back, under the tarps, a ton and a half of file cabinets clanking, code books slaloming, fuel spanking the tanks of Station Alpha's electrical generator. The modern world's hell on haiku writers: "Electrical generator" is, what, eight syllables? You couldn't even fit that onto the second line!

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Криптономикон (engl) | Глава 2

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"Same Riemann, different subject. Now let's not get sidetracked here Lawrence " "Riemann showed you could have many many different geometries that were not the geometry of Euclid but that still made sense internally," Rudy explained. "All right, so back to P.M. then," Lawrence said. "Yes! Russell and Whitehead. It's like this: when mathematicians began fooling around with things like the square root of negative one, and quaternions, then they were no longer dealing with things that you could translate into sticks and bottlecaps. And yet they were still getting sound results."

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Chapter 3 SEAWEED

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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Shaftoe hears a couple of the ship's crew talking to each other nearby "What the hell is wrong with those Marines?" one of them says. The other one shakes his head sadly, like a doctor who has just seen a patient's eyeballs roll up into their sockets. "Those poor bastards have gone Asiatic." he says. And then they turn and look at Shaftoe. That evening, at mess, Bobby Shaftoe gulps his food down double time, then stands up and approaches the table where those Old Breed Marines are sullenly gathered. "Begging your pardon, Sergeant!" he hollers. "Request permission to shine your boots, Sarge!"

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Chapter 4 FORAYS

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"I'll be damned." "When those galleons arrived, the stones were brought out of their bellies, one by one, and taken here to the Church of San Augustin, and piled up. Each stone on top of the last year's stone. Until finally after many, many years this staircase was finished." After a while it seems to Shaftoe as though it's going to take at least that many years to reach the top of the damn thing. The summit is adorned with a life sized Jesus carrying a cross that appears to be at least as heavy as one of those stair treads. So who's he to complain? Then Glory says, "Now carry me down, so you will remember the story."

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Chapter 5 INDIGO

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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The band has finished playing the national anthem and is looking about at the spectacle. Sirens and horns are speaking up all over the place, from the Nevada, from the Arizona in the next berth, from buildings onshore. Lawrence doesn't see any antiaircraft fire going up, doesn't see any familiar planes in the air. The explosions just keep coming. Lawrence wanders over to the rail and stares across a few yards of open water towards the Arizona. Another one of those plunging airplanes drops a projectile that shoots straight down onto Arizona's deck but then, strangely, vanishes. Lawrence blinks and sees that it has left a neat bomb shaped hole in the deck, just like a panicky Warner Brothers cartoon character passing at high speed through a planar structure such as a wall or ceiling. Fire jets from that hole for about a microsecond before the whole deck bulges up, disintegrating, and turns into a burgeoning globe of fire and blackness. Waterhouse is vaguely aware of a lot of stuff coming at him really fast. It is so big that he feels more like he is falling into it. He freezes up. It goes by him, over him, and through him. A terrible noise pierces his skull, a chord randomly struck, discordant but not without some kind of deranged harmony. Musical qualities aside, it is so goddamned loud that it almost kills him. He claps his hands over his ears.

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Chapter 7 BURN

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"You have just made a statement that is demonstrably not true," Randy said, pleasantly enough. "A number of Internet experts have written well reasoned books that are sharply critical of it." Kivistik was finally getting pissed off. All the levity was gone. "So," Randy continued, "to get back to where we started, the Information Superhighway is a bad metaphor for the Internet, because I say it is. There might be a thousand people on the planet who are as conversant with the Internet as I am. I know most of these people. None of them takes that metaphor seriously. Q.E.D."

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Chapter 8 PEDESTRIAN

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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Actually, they are focusing just fine. What looked like steel drums strewn around the beach turn out to be steel drums strewn around the beach. The natives are pawing them out of the sucking sand, digging with their hands like dogs, rolling them up the beach and into the jungle. Shaftoe blacks out. When he wakes up there's a row of crosses on the beach sticks lashed together with vines, draped with jungle flowers. Red is pounding them in with the butt of his rifle. All the steel drums, and most of the natives, are gone. Shaftoe needs morphine. He says as much to Red.

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Chapter 11 NIGHTMARE

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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After making it across that particular street, though, he arrives at his Westminster destination without further life threatening incidents, unless you count being a few minutes' airplane ride from a tightly organized horde of murderous Germans with the best weapons in the world. He has found himself in a part of town that seems almost like certain lightless, hemmed in parts of Manhattan: narrow streets lined with buildings on the order of ten stories high. Occasional glimpses of ancient and mighty gothic piles at street ends clue him in to the fact that he is nigh unto Greatness. As in Manhattan, the people walk fast, each with some clear purpose in mind.

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Chapter 13 CORREGIDOR

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"You are aware, by now, that the water in this area is shallow." "Yeah." "You know that cables cannot be laid in shallow water without extremely detailed, high resolution sidescan sonar surveys." "Yes." "I would like to perform those surveys for you, Randy." "I see." "No, I don't think you do see. But I want you to see, and so I'm going to explain it." "Okay," Randy says. "Should I bring my partner out?" "The concept I am about to convey to you is very simple and does not require two first rate minds in order to process it," Doug Shaftoe says.

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Chapter 15 MEAT

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"As I said," Chattan says, "our squad is in North Africa even as we speak widening the bell curve. Making it all look perfectly normal." Chapter 15 MEAT Okay, so Private First Class Gerald Hott, late of Chicago, Illinois, did not exactly shoot up through the ranks during his fifteen year tenure in the United States Army. He did, how ever, carve a bitchin' loin roast. He was as deft with a boning knife as Bobby Shaftoe is with a bayonet. And who is to say that a military butcher, by conserving the limited resources of a steer's carcass and by scrupulously observing the mandated sanitary practices, might not save as many lives as a steely eyed warrior? The military is not just about killing Nips, Krauts, and Dagoes. It is also about killing livestock and eating them. Gerald Hott was a front line warrior who kept his freezer locker as clean as an operating room and so it is only fitting that he has ended up there.

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Chapter 16 CYCLES

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"I guess I'm a Detachment 2702 kind of chaplain," the chaplain says. Lieutenant Enoch Root finally breaks eye contact with Shaftoe and turns his gaze to where the action is. "As you were, fellows," he says. "Looks like bacon tonight, huh?" The men chuckle nervously and resume sawing. Once they get the pig's carcass disentangled from Hott's, each of the Marines grabs a limb. They carry Hott out into the butcher shop, which has been temporarily evacuated for purposes of this operation, so that Hott's former comrades in shanks will not spread rumors.

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Chapter 17 ALOFT

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"Why not? I'm still alive. " "You weren't hit," the flyboy says confidently. "If you'd been hit, you'd look like Lieutenant Ethridge." For the first time, Shaftoe hazards movement. He props himself up on one elbow, and finds that the floor of the plane is slick and wet with red fluid. He had noticed a pink mist in the cabin, and supposed that it was produced by a hydraulic fluid leak. But the hydraulic system now seems hunky dory, and the stuff on the floor of the plane is not a petroleum product. It is the same red fluid that figured so prominently in Shaftoe's nightmare. It is streaming downhill from the direction of Lieutenant Ethridge's cozy nest, and the Lieutenant is no longer snoring.

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Chapter 19 ULTRA

Писатель: Стефенсон, Нейл

Глава в томе: Криптономикон (engl)

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"The sultan is backing your company?" Beryl asks. "Not in the way you mean," Avi says. "What way do you mean?" Tom Howard asks, impatient. "Let me put it this way," Avi says. "Kinakuta is a member of the United Nations. It is every bit as much an independent country and member of the community of nations as France or England. As a matter of fact, it is exceptionally independent because of its oil wealth. It is basically a monarchy the sultan makes the laws, but only after extensive consultation with his ministers, who set policy and draft legislation. And I've been spending a lot of time, recently, with the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. I have been helping the minister draft a new law that will govern all telecommunications passing through Kinakutan territory."

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