Okay, So

Johnny Steam Goes Ballistic

Johnny wanted to have the word nice tattooed on his 
left hand, one letter per knuckle, just like a biker.

Then he would chop the hand off and wear it 
around his neck as a pendant.

And the hand would be griping a piece of paper, and 
on that paper would be a list of all the cool people 
that Johnny had met in his life.

Action and attitude were his dichotomy.

Johnny's dream in life was to invent a new word. His 
hero was Lin Yutang, 3rd century B.C. in China. Lin 
invented the word family. There had never been a 
distinction before between those people you lived with 
who weren't related by parents, and those who were. 
His new word was actually a pun on the words for 
slavery and suckling. You can't judge such an act of 
creation by its consequences. It is a stroke of a god 
who feels the right to make the world as he sees fit.
 
Johnny could see no reason not to be such a god.