"L Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth 06 - Death Quest" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hubbard L. Ron)

This is your translator, 54 Charlee Nine, the Robot-brain in the Translatophone.
Lord Invay's remark about the American legal system reminds me of the problem that I had in
translating this work. First, I can't fathom how a coat and matching pants or skirt could be a
legal "suit."
Further, these "suits" are found in what Southerners say is a "coathouse" but spell as
"courthouse." I compromised and spelled it "cohthouse." I was tempted to spell it "cathouse" for
what really goes on, but while it may be a more accurate description, it sadly misses the
pronunciation.
Speaking of accents, I also had to deal with Dr. Crobe, who is a crazy Voltarian cellologist
pretending to be a psychiatrist (which automatically qualifies him as a double nutcase) who has an
accent that sounds like an Austrian being strangled. But since nobody really understands what a
psychiatrist is talking about anyway, it really doesn't matter what he sounds like.
Meanwhile, all of this is really the confession of Apparatus officer Soltan Gris, as dictated by


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him in a jail cell. I won't even begin to estimate how many logic circuits fused or warped when I
tried to get my wits
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around the life style of this nonexistent planet called Earth.
Frankly, if Fleet Officer Jettero Heller and the Countess Krak did go to Earth to arrest the
pollution so a Vol-tarian invasion force could later safely conquer the planet, I don't see how
they kept their sanity while they were there.
Soltan Gris is another matter. He acts more and more like he's from Earth, rather than Voltar.
Maybe that's because he spent so much time there studying psychology tricks from Sigmund Freud and
Bugs Bunny. Or it could be that he is simply so criminal that he was more at home on what appears
to be a prison planet. After all, Gris's whole task was to stop Heller and keep Heller from
learning that the head of the Apparatus, Lombar Hisst, was obtaining Earth drugs to overthrow the
Vol-tarian Confederacy.
Don't ask me to make any more sense of it. But I will include a Key to this volume. That's more
help than I got from Soltan Gris.
Sincerely,
54 Charlee Nine
Robotbrain in the Translatophone
Key to DEATH QUEST
Activator-receiverтАФSee Bugging Gear.
AfyonтАФCity in Turkey where the Apparatus has a secret mountain base.
Agnes, MissтАФPersonal aide to Delbert John Rockecenter.
Apparatus, Coordinated InformationтАФThe secret police of Voltar, headed by Lombar Hisst and manned
by criminals.
AtalantaтАФHome province of Jettero Heller and the Countess Krak on the planet Manco.
Bang-Bang RimbomboтАФAn ex-marine demolitions expert and member of the Corleone mob. He also attends
Jettero Heller's college Army ROTC classes in place of Heller at Empire University.
Biggs, StonewallтАФVirginia county clerk who issued Jettero Heller a birth certificate in the name
of Delbert John Rockecenter, Junior. Heller saved Biggs's life when the courthouse was bombed.
L. RON HUBBARD
DEATH QUEST