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    The Final Step: The Smoking Gun and the Coughing Nails, a Real Read Herring: the Isometrics of Tobacco and Power of Nonsense
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    The Final Step: The Smoking Gun and the Coughing Nails, a Real Read Herring: the Isometrics of Tobacco and Power of Nonsense
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    The Final Step: The Smoking Gun and the Coughing Nails, a Real Read Herring: the Isometrics of Tobacco and Power of Nonsense

    By Al Lucas

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    Paul Undres, anti- hero and protagonist, once again exposes the world’s ills. In Hi’ Steppin’ he is a crackhead who undoes the Veteran’s Administration. In Lo’ Steppin’ he is a sex addict who loses his welfare check to an alluring underage girl. Finally, herein, The Final Step, he simply smokes himself to death after a few unusual operations. Take a deep breath while he is talked about by the gods above and below and while in the heat of a fierce battle with the thought monster here on earth for supremacy. It’s a fight to the finish. Everybody loses.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateNov 24, 2014
    ISBN9781483419442
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    The Final Step: The Smoking Gun and the Coughing Nails, a Real Read Herring: the Isometrics of Tobacco and Power of Nonsense
    Author

    Al Lucas

    This is the original 1st person version called High Steppin' off da Crack, first submitted as a 3rd person account under the name of simply Hi' Steppin' years ago. This 1st person version is more in keeping with an autobiographical style while still using fictional names as characters and was created before the 3rd person version, but lost, only to be found later after the 3rd person publication. It opens with an emaciated man standing on the day of 9/11 in the VA lobby, awaiting hospitalization for crack usage. One bizarre incident after another occurs leaving his sanity no longer in question. Being a Vietnam-era vet, he is screened and then followed up by two psychiatrists of Oriental persuasion who treat him rather realistically, to his chagrin. He is discharged with a nursing plan to attend Avon Park, a renowned dual diagnosis center in Sebring, FL, but first must go to SafePlace, a transitional housing facility in Tampa to protect him from the dealers while he awaits an opening in Avon. First, however, Paul decides to go home and have one more bout with crack, to get the high he never had, using his car as leverage. It doesn't work out so well. He thus attends SafePlace without a car. It should be noted, he has read to one of the psychiatrists his ongoing novel and continues to read or have read to any and all its contents. One person, a roommate, at SafePlace is so moved, he blows his brains out. At Avon, he is assigned a class coordinator, Manfred Mundane, an ex-military pilot, who is unsympathetic about Paul's writing skills. Getting kicked out for bumming cigarettes, Paul comes home with new verve. He will in fact attend AA and does. He fights his way out of bankruptcy and foreclosure blindly with no help from family or friends and miraculously incurs twelve years of clean time. The book ends with a surprise, reserved for the reader. It should also be noted, the narrative weaves between Paul's acid days in Morocco and his current plight. His journal is in the past tense; the book's outcome, in the present with both coming to an end in Paul's bedroom where reality merges in a sexual farce.

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