Oedipus, in fear of his own inadequacy, called for a scapegoat because a plague had come to Thebes: “Whoever he may be, cast him out!” And his mandate did not stop short of murder. In short, they only exaggerate, but they do not change the basic truths. You must understand: Literature and film only present extreme manifestations of what regular human beings endure every day. The book erects a progression of parallels that demonstrate that the conflicts of men and women, while superficially appearing at odds, are in fact very similar.“Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?” These words, asked of the American people less than a week ago by President Barack Obama, echo a plea repeated by civilized peoples, and dramatized in literature, at least as far back as the ancient Greek city-states. The latter chapters dramatize the duality of this external and internal conflict by having each go through a series of symbolic trials. The major dramatic tension results from the husband and wife, separated by thousands of miles, each attempting to escape the demands of pasts they had thought to leave behind, and reunite, both as better partners for each other, and worthy parents of their child. Meanwhile, unknown to him, his wife has just decided to announce her pregnancy to him (she is about forty years old, and childless.) A lawyer working at a prominent business firm, she too is involuntarily impressed into service as the personal assistant of the two senior partners, Thomas Wright and Mr. A former Marine-sniper-turned-History-Professor, Wyrd evades the selective service and is recruited by agents of one of the involved countries, to assassinate a national of their aggressors. government to fight in a new middle eastern conflict, between two unspecified Arab nations bordering each other, aided on one side by NATO forces. Shortly following his thirty-ninth birthday, Will receives a draft notice from the U.S.

The present-day narrative is split between two protagonists, William and Nexus Wyrd (husband and wife).

Its subtitle is 'A Novel of Literary Romance and Realism.'

Clotho's Loom (2012) is a BRAND NEW (August 11, 2012) novel of approximately 120,000 words published by scholar/author Shawn StJean.

Clotho's Loom by Shawn StJean