the result being that in the final analysis, all those assembled suspected one another, and struck various poses before one another, which gave the entire gathering a very confused and even partly romantic look.
The discord within the organisation is such a good little detail to me. Of course a group of revolutionary atheists and nihilists following the thread of one man's ideas in their attempts to be original would hate each other. Stavrogin was very right in saying that the only way they could be united was by tying them in a knot of spilled blood.
