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Rama is a young vampire who has already mastered the vampire craft. He already knows the basics: he can stealthily bite a person's neck, so that from the little red liquid all the secrets of that person's soul are revealed to him. As we already know from the first part of the novel – vampires rule
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is a place where the most brilliant minds are subjected to the most unbearable conditions of existence, and neither "improvements in welfare" nor "fair elections" are the way out of this endless dead end - any ennobling and streamlining of
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