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On the next day Arthur Ovald was permitted to visit his father. Kay in a reclining posture was eating oat gruel. Its taste was just wonderful compared to the warm mineral water which they had...

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During rare/the few minutes when another dose of viral phage had lowered the toxin level in his blood and his senses were returning to him Kay was thinking in the sterile cleanness of his empty...

Foot/Base of the Foundation, either one sounds good to me. Considering the other translations you have given "Foundation" sounds better than "Basis".
Instead of "stand in the Base" it sounds logical...

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When Arthur woke up Kay was already preparing breakfast. Furthermore he had driven one harvester out of the row and parked it near the gate. Arthur looked skeptically at the clumsy machine – it...

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They remained in the ditch for another half an hour waiting for the rustling and whistling to cease and seeing small groups of men had started falling back to the cottages.
“How did you manage...

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The tunnel ended up/The tunnel exited on a flat stone plain. A landing pad for flyers was empty and a low decorative fence was stuck over with wet leaves/had wet leaves sticking on it. An...

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For the third time during this day Kay went to sleep. Curtis Van Curtis assured/made sure that the recreational premises of aThan weren’t equipped with surveillance systems. Nevertheless Kay...

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Kay’s first thought after his resurrection was that he wouldn’t forgive Curtis for this death. It was not about pain, an algopistol killed more painfully being what it was. It was simply a...

PART TWO. THE BODYGUARD

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That day Vladimir Chen was on a stand-by duty in an aThan branch office on Incedius. He was the youngest employee – he had not even turned thirty. Moreover, he had...

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His sleep or catching up with his sleep, to be precise, was calm. There were seven deaths behind his back – it was quite an experience. Besides, Kay was sure that Curtis Van Curtis wouldn’t let...

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They woke Kay up shortly before dawn. He went/had gone to bed at three o’clock and his awakening was far from being pleasant.
“Curtis Van Curtis is waiting for you” simply said the man that...

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Whatever were Curtis’s thoughts about what had happened he never talked of/about it ever since. Two medics that were working too well for ones looking/ones who looked so young had glued/closed...

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The master of immortality met the sunrise in his study. It was neither the markedly humble study where he had reasoned Kay into working with Arthur nor it was the ostentatiously open one on the...

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The wooden pavilion turned out to be a stone castle on the inside. The huge hall reminded Kay of the churches of the One Will where he was taken to in his childhood and stirred some obscure...

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Van Curtis invited Kay to dinner. After receiving brief instructions on the code of conduct given by the silicoid, wincing, Kay rose from the armchair and undressed ignoring the still stone...

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Kay slept well. The rooms in the suite he was provided with seemed infinite and/so he had neglected to look for a bedroom with a promised gravity bed. A sofa in the library was convenient enough...

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“What is wrong with that, Kay?” said Curtis as he measured the study with paces/as he strode back and forth in the study in measured paces. Whether it was for the/Whether it was to...

No, vox05 it is not required. I made a mistake to mark "then" in red. But remember these texts from Ramil are long, so at the time I was doing this it made more sense to me to insert "then", or you...

Is 'then' required here?[/quote]
No, vox05 it is not required. I made a mistake to mark "then" in red. But remember these texts from Ramil are long, so at the time I was doing this it made more...

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“Far away from Earth, far away from Cailis, where you’ve been killed, Kay…” said Van Curtis who stood on the edge of the pad looking down, a bit of ocean, a dark strip of a forest, and a patch of...

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There are private ownerships/properties fenced off by iridescent walls of force fields and the name of the aThan company appears on the shores of the Lake of Geneva, in the Amazon rainforests,...

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Death is the last adventure. Resurrection/Regeneration doesn’t bear anything new in it; it is like an ordinary awakening.
At first, Kay saw a light. Then there was a knobby grey tower, raised...

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