Ameryka??skie wied??minki 2
W??a??ciwie powinienem uwa??aÄ? - wklejanie fragment??w tekstu chronionego prawami autorskimi... To znaczy, ??e autor za ma??e pieniÄ?dze sprzeda?? wydawcy monopol na swoje dzie??o. Nabywca praw mo??e u??yÄ? monopolu by nie dopu??ciÄ? do wydania ksiÄ???ki czy nakrÄ?cenia filmu; mo??e te?? zbiÄ? na dziele majÄ?tek. Wydawcy dowiadujÄ? siÄ?, ??e ile?? tam os??b, dziÄ?ki internetowi i zapale??com, trawiÄ?cym dziesiÄ?tki godzin bez ??adnej zap??aty, korzysta z dzie??a i podnoszÄ? piek??o. Nie tak dawno temu dziÄ?ki doniesieniu policji niemieckiej (czytaj: na polecenie) polska policja zamknÄ???a autor??w napis??w do film??w zwiÄ?zanych z witrynÄ? napisy.org.pl. Jako ??e zmiana z milicji obywatelskiej na policjÄ? (jak ka??da zmiana - w my??l prawa Parkinsona) pociÄ?gnÄ???a za sobÄ? lawinowy rozrost biurokracji, dumni z aresztowania uzdolnionych jÄ?zykowo nastolatk??w policjanci zasiedli do swoich komputer??w z pirackimi Windowsami i zaczÄ?li wpisywaÄ? dane w rubryki raport??w i sprawozda?? w pirackich Office'ach... Tak, sÄ?dy starajÄ? siÄ? o legalne oprogramowanie, ale przeniesienie do komputer??w dokumentacji zajmie im ze sto lat. I wielu pracownik??w wciÄ??? potrzebuje pirackiego Lex'a, bo specjali??ci kupili za ma??o legalnych. Ale policja - w przeciwie??stwie do sÄ?d??w - nie mo??e nieograniczenie podnosiÄ? op??at za wszystkie czynno??ci, nie staÄ? jej na komputery dla ka??dego krawÄ???nika , ??e o legalnym oprogramowaniu nie wspomnÄ?. WiÄ?c krawÄ???nik kupuje to, na co go staÄ?, bo inaczej nie wyrobi siÄ? z papierami. I waczy z piractwem...
Gdyby zastanowiÄ? siÄ? definicjami, to mo??na doj??Ä? do wniosku, ??e prawdziwym piratem z regu??y jest w??a??nie w??a??ciciel praw autorskich. Narzekamy stale na ksiÄ???ki bez korekty i redakcji (jak je??yki w drugim rozdziale PJ), fatalne przek??ady. Wiemy, ??e bez korekty i redakcji, z nowym t??umaczem dla ka??dego tomu cyklu jest taniej - wiÄ?kszy zysk. Niema co siÄ? zastanawiaÄ?, gdzie przepad??y tradycje sztuki edytorskiej od Hieronima Wietor i Floriana Ungera. ZastÄ?pi??y je nowe wzorce. Oto dopisek pirata do dostÄ?pnej w Internecie wersji dwunastego tomu cyklu Anita Blake Vampire Hunter:
Version History 1.0 â?? scanned, formatted, and spell-checked. Obviously, wasnâ??t spell-checked by the production department at Penguin/Berkley before the manuscript was sent to the typesetter-Iâ??m talking around a spelling error per page, including spelling particular as particliar and suave as sauve throughout. I didnâ??t fix anything which wasnâ??t an obvious and blatant spelling errorâ??if it could have possibly be interpreted as an authorial voice choice, I left it alone, and if Hamilton wants to write midmorning instead of mid-morning, who cares. Itâ??s spelling hospital as hoptial that risks breaking the readersâ?? trace, or using wretch (the noun) when retch the verb was what was intended. All authors make typos, and many find it difficult or impossible to detail-proofread their own workâ??which is why proofreaders and spellcheckers are standard for published works. The real problem with typos in books is that they jar the reader from the readerâ??s trance â??making the reading experience, on a subconscious levelâ??less enthralling (and hence less entertaining, and less commercially successful, particularly with the authorâ??s following works). I have never seen a published book with this many typos before (and Iâ??ve read thousands). It's disgraceful when the evil pirates scanning books, like me, obviously care far more about the quality of the finished product than the major white-hat all-knowing publishers do. Trust me, the proofreading was so bad that this novel in its hardcover form, instead of being an interesting but controversial examination of dark sexual impulses, read like illiterate porn from the alt.sex newsgroups. Otherwise, itâ??s a decent read.
WiÄ?c kto jest prawdziwym piratem, rabujÄ?cym autor??w i czytelnik??w ksiÄ???ek? Mo??e inny epitet bardziej pasuje? Na przyk??ad ghul albo i graveir? Bo
- Hmm... Ghul, wuju Vesemirze, to potw??r, kt??ry po??era trupy. NapotkaÄ? go mo??na na cmentarzyskach, w okolicach kurhan??w, wszÄ?dzie, gdzie grzebie siÄ? zmar??ych. W nek... nekropoliach. Na pobojowiskach, na polach bitew... - Niebezpieczny jest wiÄ?c tylko dla nieboszczyk??w, tak? - Nie, nie tylko. ??ywych ghul r??wnie?? napada. Je??li jest g??odny lub gdy wpadnie w sza??. Je??li na przyk??ad jest bitwa... Du??o poleg??ych ludzi...
Pierwszy zaw??d Anity Blake to animator(ka). Anita animuje zw??oki - wychodzÄ? z grobu, po skosztowaniu krwi odzyskujÄ? pamiÄ?Ä? (natomiast nie majÄ? woli); mogÄ? rozstrzygnÄ?Ä?, kt??ra wersja testamentu jest w??a??ciwa, podpisaÄ? umowÄ?, z??o??yÄ? zeznania, po??wiadczyÄ? w??asno??Ä?, wyt??umaczyÄ? siÄ? przed molestowanymi dzieÄ?mi... jako zombie. W ??wiecie Anity Blake, przypominajÄ?cym USA z prze??omu XX i XXI wieku na takie us??ugi jest wystarczajÄ?cy popyt, ??eby prosperowa??y trzy firmy oferujÄ?ce takie us??ugi. Anita w kr??tkim czasie zdobywa opiniÄ? najlepszego animatora w kraju; jest te?? znana za granicÄ?. Wrodzone zdolno??ci, kt??re pozwalajÄ? cz??owiekowi zostaÄ? animatorem dajÄ? mu czÄ???ciowÄ? czÄ???ciowÄ? odporno??Ä? na wampirze uroki (w miarÄ? rozwoju Anita staje siÄ? odporna na spojrzenie i moc ponadtysiÄ?cletnich wampir??w, wiÄ?c jej Regis by nie zahipnotyzowa??). StÄ?d drugi zaw??d Anity - kat wampir??w. Nie da siÄ? wampira zatrzymaÄ? wbrew jego woli w wiÄ?zieniu czy areszcie, wiÄ?c za przestÄ?pstwa jest tylko jedna kara dla wampir??w. Nie da siÄ? ich wbrew ich woli doprowadziÄ? na salÄ? sÄ?dowÄ?, wiÄ?c wyroki zapadajÄ? zaocznie - sÄ?dzia wydaje nakaz egzekucji, a w stanach Missouri, Illinois i chyba jeszcze jednym czy dw??ch wykonawcÄ? tych nakaz??w jest Anita Blake. Trzeci zaw??d Anity Blake to ekspert policyjny. Pomaga wyspecjalizowanej w pozanaturalnych (preternatural) sprawach jednostce policji w St. Louis, zatrudniona jako ekspert przez sier??anta (potem porucznika) Rudolpha Storr, zwanego Dolph. Anita Blake wie o ghulach wiÄ?cej ni?? wied??mini wymagajÄ?. W pierwszym tomie (Guilty Pleasures):
Well, he said. That's Dolph, a man of many words. It was a ghoul attack. And. I shrugged. And there are no ghouls in this cemetery. He stared down at me, face carefully neutral. He was good at that, didn't like to influence his people. You just said it was a ghoul attack. Yes, but they came from somewhere outside the cemetery. So? I have never known of any ghouls to travel this far outside their own cemetery. I stared at him, trying to see if he understood what I was saying. Tell me about ghouls, Anita. He had his trusty little notebook out, pen poised and ready. This cemetery is still holy ground. Cemeteries that have ghoul infestations are usually very old or have satanic or certain voodoo rites performed in them. The evil sort of uses up the blessing, until the ground becomes unholy. Once that happens, ghouls either move in or rise from the graves. No one's sure exactly which. Wait, what do you mean, that no one knows? Basically. He shook his head, staring at the notes he'd made, frowning. Explain. Vampires are made by other vampires. Zombies are raised from the grave by an animator or voodoo priest. Ghouls, as far as we know, just crawl out of their graves on their own. There are theories that very evil people become ghouls. I don't buy that. There was a theory for a while that people bitten by a supernatural being, wereanimal, vampire, whatever, would become a ghoul. But I've seen whole cemeteries emptied, every corpse a ghoul. No way they were all attacked by supernatural forces while alive. All right, we don't know where ghouls come from. What do we know? Ghouls don't rot like zombies. They retain their form more like vampires. They are more than animal intelligent, but not by much. They are cowards and won't attack a person unless she is hurt or unconscious. They sure as hell attacked the groundskeeper. He could have been knocked unconscious somehow. How? Someone would have had to knock him out. Is that likely? No, ghouls don't work with humans, or any other undead. A zombie will obey orders, vampires have their own thoughts. Ghouls are like pack animals, wolves maybe, but a lot more dangerous. They wouldn't be able to understand working with someone. If you're not a ghoul, you're either meat or something to hide from. Then what happened here? Dolph, these ghouls traveled quite a distance to reach this cemetery. There isn't another one for miles. Ghouls don't travel like that. So maybe, just maybe, they attacked the caretaker when he came to scare them off. They should have run from him; maybe they didn't. Could it be something, or someone, pretending to be ghouls? Maybe, but I doubt it. Whoever it was, they ate that man. A human might do that, but a human couldn't tear the body apart like that. They just don't have the strength. Vampire? Vampires don't eat meat. Zombies? Maybe. There are rare cases where zombies go a little crazy and start attacking people. They seem to crave flesh. If they don't get it, they'll start to decay. I thought zombies always decayed. Flesh-eating zombies last a lot longer than normal. There's one case of a woman who is still human-looking after three years. They let her go around eating people? I smiled. They feed her raw meat. I believe the article said lamb was preferred. Article? Every career has its professional journal, Dolph. What's it called? I shrugged. The Animator, what else?
i trochÄ? dalej:
There was the sound of scrabbling claws on metal. I whirled. A ghoul sat on top of my car. It was naked and looked as if a human being had been stripped and dipped into silver-grey paint, almost metallic. But the teeth and claws on its hands and feet were long and black, curved talons. The eyes glowed crimson. Edward moved up beside me, gun in his hand. I had my gun out, too. Practice, practice, and you don't have to think about it. What's it doing up there? he asked. Don't know. I waved my free hand at it and said, Scat! It crouched, staring at me. Ghouls are cowards; they don't attack healthy human beings. I took two steps, waving my gun at it. Go away, shoo! Any show of force sends them scuttling away. This one just sat there. I backed away. Edward, I said, softly. Yes. 'I didn't sense any ghouls in this cemetery. So? You missed one. There's no such thing as just one ghoul. They travel in packs. And you don't miss them. They leave a sort of psychic stench behind. Evil. Anita. His voice was soft, normal, but not normal. I glanced where he was looking and saw two more ghouls creeping up behind us. We stood almost back to back, guns pointing out. I saw a ghoul attack earlier this week. Healthy man killed, a cemetery where there were no ghouls. Sounds familiar, he said. Yeah. Bullets won't kill them. I know. What are they waiting for? he asked. Courage, I think.
i jeszcze:
Of course. How are you getting the ghouls out of their cemetery? How come they obey your orders? You know the theory that if you bury an animator in a cemetery, you get ghouls. Yeah. When I came out of the grave, they came with me, and they were mine. Mine. I glanced at the creatures and found that there were more of them. At least twenty, a big pack. So you're saying that's where ghouls come from. I shook my head. There aren't enough animators in the world to account for all the ghouls. I've been thinking about that, he said. I think that the more zombies you raise in a cemetery, the greater your chances for ghouls. You mean like a cumulative effect? Exactly. I've been wanting to talk this over with another animator, but you see the problem.
NatÄ?pny tom (The Laughing Corpse) i nastÄ?pne miejsce przestÄ?pstwa, czyli CS:
Most dead don't bleed, except for vampires. Most? Freshly dead zombies can bleed, but vampires bleed almost like a person. You don't think it was a vampire then? If it was, then it ate human flesh. Vampires can't digest solid food. Ghoul? Too far from a cemetery, and there'd be more destruction of the house. Ghouls would tear up furniture like wild animals.
i jeszcze:
Most vampires have to return to their coffins before dawn. Ghouls stay in underground tunnels, like giant moles. If it was either of those I'd say the creature was out here somewhere waiting for nightfall.
Tom czwarty (The Lunatic Cafe):
I could have told him that earlier in the summer Dolph had tried not calling me in right away. It had seemed like a clear-cut case of ghouls in a cemetery getting a little ambitious and attacking a necking couple. Ghouls were cowards and didn't attack able-bodied people, but exceptions to the rule and all that. By the time Dolph called me in, six people were dead. It hadn't been ghouls. So lately Dolph had started calling me at the beginning before things got too messy. Sometimes I could diagnose a problem before it got out of hand.
Tom ??smy (Blue Moon):
Was the body found near a cemetery? I asked. Dr. Onslow shook her head. Why? Richard asked. It could have been ghouls. They're cowards, but if she'd fallen and knocked herself unconscious, ghouls would have fed on her. They are active scavengers. What's that mean? Dr. Onslow asked. Active scavenger? It means if you're wounded and reduced to crawling, you don't want to be in a ghoul-infested cemetery. She stared up at me, then finally shook her head. No graves. Just in the middle of our land. In the middle of the trolls' territory.
[Dr. Carrie Onslow ma doktorat z biologii i nie zna terminu active scavenger]
Tom trzynasty (Micah):
Sometimes very old cemeteries, especially those that haven't been used in a while, like this one, can become unconsecrated. It's like they need to be re-blessed before they qualify as consecrated ground again. And that would affect the zombie how? Micah's arms relaxed minutely, so that we were still holding each other but not pressed so fiercely against each other. He was right â?? we were going to be here awhile. I relaxed into his arms. Well, it could mean there were ghouls in the cemetery, and they're attracted to the freshly dead. They would have burrowed into the new grave and eaten Mr. Rose by now. There might, or might not, have been left enough of him for him to be able talk to you. Ghouls, really? He started to ask something else, but I think it was only curiosity and not the case, because he shook his head and frowned. Did you sense any ghouls? No, your honor. The fact that I'd actually dropped shields more by accident than design would be our little secret. I'd told the truth about the ghouls, but they hadn't been why my power danced out over the graves.
Kalendarz u??ywany w ??wiecie Anity Blake przypomina nasz. Akcja ka??dego tomu trwa kilka dni i nocy oko??o weekendu. Tom podzielony jest na rozdzia??y, kt??re (w znakomitej wiÄ?kszo??ci) podlegajÄ? zasadzie jedno??ci miejsca i czasu. Czy mo??na m??wiÄ?, ??e cykl wpisuje siÄ? w wied??mi??skie klimaty w wydaniu XXI wiecznym ? Hmmm... To mo??e byÄ? tak, jak z rypniÄ?tym kalendarzem w Sadze, kiedy z okre??lenia terminu nastÄ?pnego sabatu przez FilippÄ? Eilhart w ChO wynika??y trzydziestosiedmiodniowe miesiÄ?ce ksiÄ???ycowe w Sapkozji. Mianowicie w tomie trzecim (Circus of the Damned) Halloween jest w piÄ?tek (u nas np. 1997, 2003), tom czwarty dzieje siÄ? w grudniu, dwa tygodnie przed ?šwiÄ?tami, a najbli??szy dzie?? ??w. Patryka (tom piÄ?ty Bloody Bones) - te?? w piÄ?tek (u nas - 1995, 2000, 2006). Albo inny kalendarz, albo kto?? siÄ? rypnÄ??? jak Ashhhh... Filippa.
CiÄ?g dalszy byÄ? mo??e nastÄ?pi...
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