I just can't bring myself to like Sheldon Vanauken's spiritual classic A Severe Mercy, which is now in production as a film. At this point in my life I kind of hate it.
A Severe Mercy is the story of Vanauken and the love of his life, Jean "Davy" Palmer Davis. The two met in the 1930s and fell in love. They are inseparable, naming their schooner the Grey Goose, "for the grey goose, if its mate is killed flies on alone and never takes another." The two lovers create what they call "a shining barrier of love":
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