Ferocious Francis's oxygen tank: submitted will
they were not his personal will but that he’d submitted to advice and now here he was, still sucking air and staying rabidly Active.
Context
The Crocodile model of recovery embodied in a prop. Ferocious Francis, dying of emphysema, carries an oxygen tank and taped nasal tube he refuses to credit to his own will — they exist because "he’d submitted to advice," the same surrender the Steps demand, extended past sobriety into the management of his own dying body. The detail makes the theme's central move concrete: recovery is the lifelong replacement of self-direction with submission, and the decades-sober sponsor demonstrates it by breathing through a tube he took only because he was told to. Staying "rabidly Active" while dying is the doctrine of 074's Crocodiles lived to the end.