"A father, being a necessary evil"

Today's passage · lines 9.491–650

The 2-minute recap

Stephen pushes his theory to its strangest point: that fatherhood is a kind of mystical fiction, a bond nobody can ever fully prove, unlike motherhood, which is plain fact. …

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