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Panel 1: Daphne and Eliza sit next to one another on a comfortable-looking couch, being interviewed.

Daphne (1): The charitable contribution was a big thing for me.

Translation (1): Благотворительный взнос – отличная идея.

Eliza (2): Yeah, me too!

Translation (2): Да, тоже так думаю!

Daphne (3): It’s really an issue of effective altruism.

Translation (3): Это проявление реального альтруизма.

Panel 2: A thin-but-healthy African child spooning something nourishing into her mouth while looking at the viewer with large and grateful eyes.

CAPTION – DAPHNE NARRATING (4): Estimates vary depending on details of methodology, but a consensus view is that a million dollars well spent on hunger and disease relief could easily save thirty lives.

Translation (4): Цифры могут различаться в зависимости от метода оценки, но по общему мнению, миллион долларов, потраченный на борьбу с недоеданием и болезнями, может легко спасти тридцать жизней.

Panel 3: Daphne and Eliza on the couch again.

Daphne (5): One for thirty seems like a pretty good trade to me, another way of living a life that matters.

Translation (5): Одна жизнь ради тридцати – отличная сделка. Еще один способ прожить жизнь не зря.

Unseen interviewer (out-of-panel balloon) (6): And what are you contributing to, Eliza?

Translation (6): А вы на что жертвуете, Элиза?

Eliza (7): Well, I’ve always loved animals.

Translation (7): Я всегда любила животных.

Panel 4: Eliza, dressed differently than she is for the interview, cradling a sad-looking little puppy in her arms, comforting it.

CAPTION – ELIZA NARRATING (8): A million dollars in humane society relief goes a long way.

Translation (8): Миллион долларов на помощь животным – отличное вложение.

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PAGE 32 (Single panel page – do in color)

Single panel: A girl swimming partly upright underwater in a giant (at least 6 meters high and 4 meters in diameter) cylindrical glass tank. She is wearing a utilitarian one-piece swimsuit, to which various “tentacle” attachments have been made at various places, including at the breasts and between her legs. Her face is covered with an attachment rather like the “mask” that covered Phoebe Petrobux’s face in her last appearance above the surface. Beneath the swimming girl’s feet there is a large tube similar to the feeding siphon the creature is believed to have. Off to the right of the panel a white-coated scientist is operating a control panel with a variety of levers and dials. To the left, another scientist watches monitors and keeps notes.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (1): Those women who got through the initial rounds of the process went through a simulation test.

Translation (1): Женщины, прошедшие первые раунды отбора, были испытаны на симуляторе.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (2): We don’t want subjects who will panic and struggle under field conditions.

Translation (2): Нам не нужны люди, которые могут впасть в паническое состояние в полевых условиях.

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Panel 1: HARVEY ELIGOS (“Eligos”), an elegant-looking man with a neatly trimmed Van Dyke beard and an expensive suit, sits across a polished wooden conference table in a conference room of a high-priced law firm. He is being interviewed. He looks and in control of his situation.

Unseen interviewer (1): We don’t understand about “non-suicidality.” Isn’t this a sort of suicide mission by definition?

Translation (1): Не совсем понятно насчет «суицидальных наклонностей». Рассматриваете ли вы вашу миссию как суицидальную по определению?

Eligos (2): No.

Translation (2): Нет.

SUBTITLE (3): Harvey Eligos, J.D., Ph.D., legal psychologist and consultant.

Translation (3): Харви Элигос, доктор права и философии, судебный психолог и консультант.

Panel 2: Harvey, still in control, continuing his response to the interviewer.

Eligos (4): To be suicidal means wanting to end one’s life, and that’s what the testing on this project was meant to screen out.

Translation (4): Суицидальные наклонности означают желание свести счеты с жизнью, и именно такие случаи призвано исключить тестирование.

Eligos (5): Accepting the end of one’s life as a side-effect of achieving a higher goal, that’s not suicide.

Translation (5): Готовность принять смерть как побочный эффект при достижении высшей цели – это не суицид.

Unseen interviewer (6): We still don’t understand.

Translation (6): Все-таки не совсем понятно.

Panel 3: View of a dead United States Marine (WWII era), lying face down in the mud, his rifle and various battle detritus strew about his corpse.

CAPTION – ELIGOS NARRATING (7): Suppose a Marine throws himself on a live grenade, sacrificing his own life to save those of his fellow Marines. Would we call that a suicide? Of course not. He nobly sacrificed his life to achieve a higher goal.

Translation (7): Предположим, морской пехотинец бросается грудью на гранату, жертвуя своей жизнью ради сослуживцев. Можно назвать это суицидом? Конечно, нет. Он благородно принес свою жизнь в жертву ради высшей цели.

Panel 4: Close-up on Eligos’s face.

Eligos (8): These researchers were looking for subjects interested in the higher goal of advancing science, among other things.

Translation (8): Эти исследователи ищут людей, заинтересованных в высшей цели прогресса науки.

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Panel 1: Probably the largest panel across the top of the page. An institutional-looking room full of young women sitting at desks, filling out forms with pencils.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (1): We were surprised at the number of volunteers we got when word of our project got out on social networks.

Translation (1): Разместив информацию о нашем проекте в наших соцсетях, мы были поражены количеством желающих в нем участвовать.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (2): We did extensive psychological testing to root out cases of suicidality and mental instability.

Translation (2): Мы провели расширенное психологическое тестирование, чтобы отсеять лиц с неустойчивой психикой и суицидальными наклонностями.

Panel 2: Turpentine in his office, being interviewed.

Turpentine (3): There were some legal issues, of course, but our philanthropic sponsor is well connected and found ways to deal with them.

Translation (3): Конечно же, возникли и некоторые юридические проблемы, однако наш щедрый и влиятельный спонсор смог их разрешить.

Panel 3: A young woman wearing a hospital gown, sitting on an examination table and having her blood pressure checked by a nurse.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (4): We did rigorous medical screening.

Translation (4): Мы провели строгое медицинское тестирование.

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