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Rasmoth was a young composition instructor at a junior college on
his native Corhir but he also wrote pornography. When he died,
unexpectedly and before he could mend his evil ways, he was
condemned to Hell, which happened to be Earth and sentenced to be a
frustrated newspaper writer. Living out a normal earthly life in
the person of Hank Johnson he was unaware that he was really
Rasmoth, or that he was paying for sins Rasmoth committed in
another world. Hank just thought he wanted to be a newspaper
writer. The staff that was managing his sentence from afar was not
unlike a managerial staff one would find on Earth. Mistakes were
made, orders were lost and deadlines were missed and the end result
was that Hank Johnson took what is generally referred to on Earth
as, "a long time to find himself." And when the people
masterminding his punishment were on rare occasions successful,
Hank's progress was often thwarted by his own rash decision-making.
He wasn't always the best prisoner. He made bad choices at the
wrong times and oftentimes treated common sense as the enemy. The
most challenging problem in the universe seemed to be getting Hank
and the people controlling his destiny on the same page at the same
time. The plan was for him to be a newspaper writer but instead he
found himself doing everything else imaginable while seemingly
always existing on the fringe of the newspaper world he should have
belonged to. Hank performed a wide variety of jobs on Earth that
were obviously unrelated to his sentence and which no one seemed
able to explain. He was a writer for the Army in Vietnam and for a
while, after leaving the Army, he was a baker. No job was more
confounding to the people monitoring his rehabilitation than when
he became a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. In the course of
serving Rasmoth's sentence, Hank associated with many unsavory
characters, including one particularly mysterious vagrant unknown
to anyone in the universe. This person, who frequently showed up
unexpectedly and usually left without a trace played a pivotal role
in Hank's life-sometimes for the better and sometimes not.
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