Professor, come here, please. Wait a minute. Don't be in a hurry. I'm in no hurry whatsoever. I know, you're going to get mad. Anyway, I must tell you... We are now... on the threshold... This is the most important moment in your life. You must know that... Your innermost wishes will be made real here. Your most sincere wish! Born of suffering! No need to say anything. You just have to... concentrate and try to recall your whole life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder. And most important... Most important... You have to believe! Now you can go. Who wants to be the first? Maybe, you? Me? No, I don't want to. I understand, it's not easy, but it will pass. I doubt... that it will pass. If I begin recalling my life, it's very unlikely I'll get any kinder. Besides, don't you feel how shameful the whole thing is? Humiliating yourself, sniveling, praying? What's so bad in praying? It's just your pride speaking. Calm down, you're not ready yet. It happens quite often. Maybe, you first? Yes, me. We see before us Professor's new invention! An appliance exploring human souls! Soulmeter! It's only a bomb. What? You must be kidding. No, it's just a bomb. Twenty kilotons. What for? We had it assembled with my friends. With my former colleagues. This place will never bring any happiness to anyone. But if this thing gets into the wrong hands... Though, I'm not sure any more. We came to the conclusion then... that we shouldn't destroy the Zone after all. Even if it's some miracle, it's still part of nature, and therefore, a hope in a sense. They had hidden that bomb, and I've found it. The old building, bunker four. I guess there must be a principle... Never do anything that can't be undone. I understand everything, I'm not some maniac. But as long as this plague lies in the open, accessible to any scum, I can get no peace, no sleep. Or maybe, my innermost won't let me do it? Poor man, some problem he's invented for himself. Give it to me! Give it to me! You're a civilized man, aren't you? - Why? What's the matter with you? - You, lousy hypocrite... Why? What have I done... to you? He wants to destroy your hope! That's all people have got left on this earth! It's the only place they can come to, if there's no hope left for them. You yourself have come here! Why destroy hope then? Shut up! I can see through you! You don't give a damn about people! You just make money, using our... anguish! It's not even the money. You're enjoying yourself here. You're like God Almighty here. You, a hypocritical louse, decide who is to live and who is to die. He deliberates! Now I see why you stalkers never enter the room yourselves. You revel in all that power, that mystery, your authority! What else is there to wish for? It's not true! You... you're mistaken. A stalker must not enter the room. A stalker must not even enter the Zone with an ulterior motive. Remember Porcupine? Yes, you're right, I'm a louse. I haven't done any good in this world, and I can't do any. I couldn't give anything even to my wife. I can't have any friends either. But don't take mine from me! They'd already taken everything from me back there, behind the barbed wire. So all that's mine is here. You understand? Here! In the Zone! My happiness, my freedom, my self-respect, it's all here! I bring here people like me, desperate and tormented. People who have nothing else to hope for. And I can help them! No one else can help them, only l, the louse, can! I'm so happy to be able to help them that I want to cry. And that's all. I don't want anything more. I don't know. Maybe. Anyway, excuse me, but... You're just a God's fool. You have no idea what's going on here. Why do you think Porcupine hanged himself? He came to the Zone with a mercenary motive. He made his brother die in the meat mincer because of money. I know. But why
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