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Luke Dodson's avatar

"Humiliation isn’t just the sense that someone is having fun at your expense - real humiliation is taking a lion cub and scraping down it’s claws, until they just have stubs. Breaking the talons of the eagle, or extracting the teeth of the serpent, and then observing them trying to pursue their instincts. Its pathetic. Humiliation is taking a boy on the cusp of manhood and turning his face from that horizon, pushing it down towards the ground, towards the water bladders and the seed grinders and thumb scrapers for cleaning the fat from delicate little hides."

Hauntingly written - well done, Herb.

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Jon Cutchins's avatar

Very interesting. I want very much to know why the boys have been being kept at 'women's work' and how they will do at their new won manhood. Very interested to see their story unfold.

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