A synopsis of JD… neat requested by MIT, Harvard and Cambridge to perform a logical-logic study of JD… neat. This study was awarded to Prof. G. N. Dubinsky, a distinguished scholar of logical linguistics at the University of St. Andrews.

JD... neat takes place in New York City and primarily deals with Nikifor (Nick) Dzhamgerchinov, one of the world’s most talented con artists. While serving time in prison, Nick meets Scarce the Idiot (idiot-savant)—a heartless nickname given to him by a disrespectful police officer. In time, Nick steals one of Scarce’s brilliant manuscripts.
       Timothy McManus narrates JD... neat and, from the very beginning, admits his life is little more than an absurd farce. While working as a “sludge pile reader” for a prominent New York City-based publisher, he reads an unsolicited manuscript entitled Kid Patagonian. After reading the entire manuscript from the first page to the last (a rare thing for Timothy to do), he concludes that it is the most brilliant bit of writing he has read in his entire life.
       Shortly after recommending Kid Patagonian for immediate publication, Timothy is surprised to discover that he has become caught up in the middle of a significant fraud. Already disheartened by the corporate greed around him (which is strengthened by his passion for Jack Daniels, Old No. 7), Timothy takes Nick under his wing and teaches him how to behave like the literary genius he isn’t.
       They are seated in a sleazy bar in Queens, having tossed back numerous shots of JD, when an extremely drunk Timothy decides to change Nikifor Dzhamgerchinov’s name to “Jack Daniels” in honor of the beverage Timothy has always considered to be God’s most honest creation.
       The day before the launch party for Kid Patagonian, Nick provides Timothy with his most recent manuscript, Awakenings, which he has also stolen from Scarce. Although Timothy is aware that Nick is a con artist who has obviously stolen both manuscripts, at this point Timothy does not know that the real genius is Scarce the Idiot, who wrote both brilliant books.

         After reading Awakenings, Timothy once again concludes that this is the finest bit of writing he has ever read, and Nick’s growing number of reader fans are convinced that he is a literary phenomenon—a genius above all geniuses.
       Nick’s meteoric rise peaks (and subsequently declines) while he is living in Berlin, Germany. To face up to his criminal past Nick, writes his biography, which he titles Legitimate, Finally: The Honest Confessions of a Jack Daniels, Who Never Existed At All. In this Manuscript, Nick confesses that he, Nikifor Dzhamgerchinov, deliberately stole both Kid Patagonian and Awakenings from Scarce the Idiot.
       As Timothy predicts, when Jack Daniel’s fans learn that their literary god is a fraud and that the real genius is Scarce the Idiot, their adoration quickly changes to confusion, then absolute rage. After Nick confesses that he is a fraud, the media seize on the opportunity and unmercifully tear Nick apart, ultimately causing one of Jack Daniel’s former fans to believe it is his moral right to shoot Nick dead.
       Timothy ends JD... neat with a summary of what happened to each of the major characters. Realizing that he doesn’t have the emotional strength to take care of Scarce the Idiot (and his young daughter Zoë), Timothy convinces Miss America’s mother to take both under her wing. As Timothy mentions in the beginning of JD... neat, life itself is a series of chapters; as the new chapter begins, Timothy says adieu to al’kee’hall and walks toward his unknown future, maybeish.

DA FINIS 

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