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Event

The Birthday Public Confession

Also known as his birthday, a formal declaration, a full account of the crime.

The mysterious visitor chooses his own birthday gathering as the place to read a formal confession before the town. Standing among guests and officials, he gives a full account of the murder he has carried in secret and lays out the objects he kept as proof. The scene is both public exposure and spiritual release, though the listeners struggle to believe him.

VI-II. The Duel

The confession is dismissed by many as madness, but Zossima reads the visitor's peace as evidence that truth has done its work in him.

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