When Weakness Becomes the Point.

Paul has been doing something he hates. For the past few chapters, he's been forced to defend himself to the in — listing his credentials, his suffering, his — because rival teachers have been undermining him. He calls it "boasting," and you can feel how uncomfortable he is with it. But now he's about to share something he's kept to himself for fourteen years. And then he's going to flip the whole conversation in a direction nobody expected.