A two-book volume of autobiographical/philosophical fiction comprised of the novels 'Changing Worlds' and 'Fixed Limits', both of which feature the character Michael Savage in a variety of roles and sitatuations as he resolves, in the first book, to abandon clerking for writing, and struggles, in the second book, to establish a literary persona in the face of numerous obstacles. Dating from 1976, this was John O'Loughlin's first major literary project, and it shows the influence of authors like Joyce, Miller, and Sartre on his fledgling search for literary identity.