To put weapons beyond use. A curious phrase - not to destroy them, but to place them out of use, to render them functionless. But what do they become then, those weapons? They are not destroyed, they endure, but for what purpose? To commemorate a struggle? To signal the peaceable time the bomb lies beside rock?
Dream of the rebellion of matter, revolt of the earth upon whose hard surface everything will be broken. Isn't this the meaning of the Zone of Stalker? Notice the same items that are on the Stalker's nightstand are those over which the camera pans in the Zone. The same items - yes, but now they have the patina of age, now they exhibit what the Japanese call sabi, rust. That's when I saw it, the weapon in the water: it was a bomb, lain aside in the pool outside The Room. The camera rests its gaze on the bomb. It is beyond use. Water passes across the bomb.