Constant Change: Paths of Error - Paths of Error, #2

Paths of Error is 3 views through the same window of time, more a triptych than a trilogy. The first was Undeclared War, which saw rebel-born Tom Newson, known as Newt, fighting his way out of Paignton, into the army, through Cyprus and out of the army.... Blue, in Constant Change, begins however as an idealist with no ideals. His way is to be found through women. He rejects all the values that a Devon seaside town has to offer.
Rejected himself by his first girlfriend he drifts into the Merchant Navy, only to jump ship in Sri Lanka. Through an American girl there he discovers Buddhism, but decides that he cannot live a righteous life while being supported by her father's money. In sixties London he becomes briefly an ascetic programmer. Then through an Irish girl, he comes back to boozy earth with a bump. Rejecting her along with the booze he moves into a squat and there rescues a maiden in distress.
The mother of his children leads him to a brief rural idyll...