For owners of "A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn's Eye"

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>>297806
Well, let's bump it a couple of times to be safe...

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/index.php?s=A%20Glow%20of%20Candles,%20A%20Unicorn%27s%20Eye%20&f_lang=0&f_columns=0&f_ext=0&f_group=1

>>297890
Thanks. I, however, am not quite satisfied. You see, our small community of amateur and not-so-amateur translators has a bit of doubt regarding the skill of the typesetter who made this book available for computers. Some quite unusual contraptions, such as "prologues device," make us wonder if there was nothing lost of the original, so my request still stands. Moreover, your link reinforced my own doubts, as there seems to be quite a lot of results of poor text recognition, like in the page 18 of the .pdf file.

>>297958
If you'd mentioned from the beginning that you have the public scans and were hoping for better scans to translate from, that would've been nice. That said, the first couple pages aren't that difficult to figure out:

>It is a forgetting of years, to keep me from weeping.
>Because the secret is out.
>Has been, in fact, since the first evening I presented this prologue's device -not original, but originally apt.
>No secret, then.
>But I like the beard anyway.
>And so did my Helena, whose hair -such hair! -was once so wonderfully long.
>Attend then -or so says the script I no longer need to guide me -but before you decide where applause is warranted, be sure that you understand, be sure that you know exactly what you are applauding. We are still, after all, and in the last sight of the law, criminals, you know. I nearly murdered, and she nearly surrendered.
>And I think that they will catch up with us at the last. Not because we have escaped and were pardoned. But because we have escaped and have been free.

Why are you in such a rush, that you couldn't wait for the book to arrive?

>>298008
Sorry, didn't think about it. Thank you.

>> Why are you in such a rush, that you couldn't wait for the book to arrive?
It's quite possible that a month or two (knowing our mail services, I personally wouldn't be surprised if it took more than that) would be more than enough for everyone to stop caring about this issue or even the novel itself if recognition artifacts make it impossible to translate correctly.