Stalker Page #5

But it is what we've made it

with our condition.

It happened that people had

to stop halfway and go back.

Some of them even died

on the very threshold of the room.

But everything that's going on here

depends not on the Zone, but on us!

So it lets the good ones pass

and kills the bad ones?

I don't know.

I think

it lets those pass who...

have lost all hope.

Not good or bad,

but wretched people.

But even the most wretched will die

if they don't know how to behave.

You have been lucky,

it just warned you.

I guess I'll wait for you here

until you come back,

made happy.

It's impossible!

I've got sandwiches, a thermos...

You won't last even an hour here

without me.

Besides, one doesn't return here

the way one comes.

Anyway, I would prefer...

Then we're going back right away.

I'll return your money

minus a certain sum

for the trouble, so to speak...

Have you come to your senses,

Professor?

All right. Go on, throw your nut.

Part Two

STALKER:

Where are you?

Come here!

Are you tired?

Oh, God!

Judging by his tone, he's going to

start sermonizing again.

Let everything that's been planned

come true.

Let them believe.

And let them have a laugh

at their passions.

Because what they call passion

actually is not some emotional energy,

but just the friction between

their souls and the outside world.

And most important,

let them believe in themselves

let them be helpless like children,

because weakness is a great thing,

and strength is nothing.

When a man is just born,

he is weak and flexible,

when he dies,

he is hard and insensitive.

When a tree is growing,

it's tender and pliant,

but when it's dry and hard,

it dies.

Hardness and strength

are death's companions.

Pliancy and weakness are

expressions of the freshness of being.

Because what has hardened

will never win.

Come here!

We're progressing well.

Soon we'll come to a dry tunnel,

after that it will get easier.

Knock on wood.

- Are we on our way already?

- Of course. Why?

I thought you just wanted

to show us something.

- What about my knapsack?

- What about it?

I left it there.

I didn't know we were going.

- There's nothing we can do about it.

- No, we have to go back.

- It's impossible!

- I can't do without my knapsack!

Can't you understand that no one here

has ever come back the same way?

Forget about your knapsack.

What have you got there, diamonds?

The room will give you

anything you want.

Really. It will drown you

in knapsacks.

How far is it, this room?

If you go straight, about 200 meters,

but there's no going straight here.

Let's go.

Give up your empiricism, Professor.

Miracles are outside empiricism.

Remember how St. Peter

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