This Novella with play dialogue experiment is on the theme of Continuity , how far you should go to make certain things come about and using what means.
The original title of the Play was from Blakes stanza "In The Forests of The Night" , and so we have the conflicting dilemma of Aesthetic Spiritual and Moral Beauty with Primal Want and Need.
In this easy to read Morality Play the lead character Joe Saul is in need of Continual Legacy that is apparently unattainable , his Wife is laboured with the finding of the solution to his Need for a transcendent fulfillment by having to conceive his desperately wanted Child with another Man , hence having to come up with the desperate fusion of Moral aesthetics with Primal requirements to try to find Happiness.A pact that requires putting faithfulness on the line.
The end result is more emotional painful tension and disintegration of trust than the resolution of a situation that ought to have yielded Happiness and Contentment.
The moral of this Morality Play is not The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions , but the road to faithful fulfillment is paved with Sincere Good Intentions as long as they do not cross over certain inalienable boundaries.
The Book also has significance as a tribute to his close friend Ed Ricketts , with whom he wrote The Sea of Cortez, who had been killed in a road accident at about this time.
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