The Ultimate Intimacy

Author's Foreword

The statement that any resemblance between characters in a literary work and actual persons is purely coincidental generally tempts the reader to find real-life models for fictional characters.

The hero of this novel is a Protestant pastor, as the reader will immediately realize from its opening lines, and since I have a good number of friends among the Protestant clergy, whom I esteem for their social and moral stands, I should like to assure my readers that on this occasion it would be truly pointless to seek a model for my hero among their number. The same also applies, of course, to all the other characters in the book. After a lifetime's experience of prose writing, it is my considered opinion that the most authentic people and stories are those that emerge from the authors imagination.