Do you want to read it, and then we can talk about that?

Yeah, I have my Beautiful addition here.

So it's just a very short section right at the end of Tehanu.

And I remember when I read this, I was absolutely startled because suddenly at the end of the book, we enter into, or the storyteller enters into...

the mind of the character Tohanu or Therru, who's up to this point we've been seeing from the outside as a terribly damaged child sort of getting by.

And then here's just a little bit of it.

Starts out, the child turned left and went some way before she looked back, letting the blossoming hedgerow hide her.

And I think that was one that is carried through throughout.

Do you want to read it? And then we can talk about that.

Yeah, I have my, Beautiful addition here.

So it's just a very short section right at the end of Tehanu.

And I remember when I read this, I was absolutely startled because suddenly at the end of the book, we enter into or the storyteller enters into the mind of the character Tohanu or Therru, who's up to this point we've been seeing from the outside as a terribly damaged child sort of getting by.

And then here's just a little bit of it.

Starts out, the child turned left and went some way before she looked back, letting the blossoming hedgerow hide her.

And then this is where we enter into her mind.

And I think that was one that is carried through throughout.

Do you want to read it and then we can talk about that?

Yeah, I have mine.

Beautiful addition here.

So it's just a very short section right at the end of Tehanu.

And I remember when I read this, I was absolutely startled because suddenly at the end of the book, we enter into or the storyteller enters into the mind of the character Tehanu.

Tohanu or Therru, who's up to this point we've been seeing from the outside as a terribly damaged child sort of getting by.

And then here's just a little bit of it.

And I think that was one that is carried through throughout.

Here's today's episode, which Brian recorded in March of 2025.

My name is Brian Attebery, and I'm reading post number seven, A Band of Brothers, A Stream of Sisters, from November 2010.

I have come to see male group solidarity as an immensely powerful force in human affairs, more powerful perhaps than the feminism of the late 20th century took into account.

It's amazing, given their different physiology and complement of hormones, how much alike men and women are in most ways.

Still, it seems to be the fact that women on the whole have less direct competitive drive and desire to dominate, and therefore, paradoxically, have less need to bond with one another in ranked exclusive groups.

The power of male group solidarity must come from the control and channeling of male rivalry, the repression and concentration of the hormone-driven will to dominate that so often dominates men themselves.

It is a remarkable reversal.