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    The Waiting Room Chronicles: Individual Death Illustrated as an Absurdist Continuous Cycle
    The Waiting Room Chronicles: Individual Death Illustrated as an Absurdist Continuous Cycle
    The Waiting Room Chronicles: Individual Death Illustrated as an Absurdist Continuous Cycle
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    The Waiting Room Chronicles: Individual Death Illustrated as an Absurdist Continuous Cycle

    By Perry L. Angle

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    The Waiting Room Cronicles offers an insightful look into the ancient concept of the Pool of Souls which illustrates the interplay of mythology, science and religion. In the short story, The Jubilee, set in the author's beloved Alabama, on a stormy day Greek gods befriend the young pure of heart. There are truths uncovered in these pages which reflect a portrait of man that changes with the political, environmental, and religious upheaval that daily forces man to confront his existential nature. It is the relentless pace of progress that makes man hessitant and brings him depression and pain.

    In the room people await an assignment which will interject them into another situation either in the past, or future. Unfortunately, the ultimate outcome will be death. All believe an escape is possible if the beloved messenger brings the hoped for assissigment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 25, 2011
    ISBN9781462054251
    The Waiting Room Chronicles: Individual Death Illustrated as an Absurdist Continuous Cycle
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    Perry L. Angle

    Perry L. Angle was a successful salesman, manager and stockbroker. He received his MBA from Auburn University. As an avid outdoorsman, he writes of his beloved South with humility and respect. The author of The Butterfly Transport and Prophet's Way is an accomplished champion of individual values. His unusual reflection of man in his existential response to stress is noteworthy. The author achieves a delicate balance in his use of science, philosophy and religion as he weaves portraits of man as he becomes despondent with each revelation of the difficulty of existence in a tumulteous world. Some readers will find truths explored that are applicable to their own situations

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      The Waiting Room Chronicles - Perry L. Angle

      The Waiting Room Chronicles

      Individual death illustrated as an absurdist continuous cycle

      By

      Perry L. Angle

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      THE WAITING ROOM CHRONICLES

      Individual death illustrated as an absurdist continuous cycle

      Copyright © 2011 by Perry L. Angle.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This is a work of fiction with no other purpose than to entertain. All commentary simply reflects the opinion of the author based upon his observation of an ever changing economic, political, religious and environmental landscape.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5424-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5425-1 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011916340

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 09/27/2011

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      ACT ONE

      ACT TWO

      SHORT FICTION

      POEMS AND PARABLES

      NOTHINGNESS AND TIME

      GESTALT

      THE PROPHET

      WHAT THE CONCH SHELL WHISPERED

      MAMMY

      THE JUBILEE

      JAZZ

      DESTINATION

      2012

      THE LITTLE CHURCH AT CODEN

      MIDDLE EARTH

      DISORDER

      TENSE

      RAGGEDY ANN

      SHADOWMAN

      SORTING THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS

      HEADSTONE

      LEGEND OF THE CORN

      Dedication

      To

      Ashley, Alex, Anslee, Zoie and Claire

      My Grand Assortment

      Long and happy life to all my darlings

      Think of all the supposed or little understood bodies we can only conjecture to exist—black dwarfs, dark energy, the Chameleon Force Hawking radiation, gravitons, gluons, Higgs particles, Strings, new planet formations in extra solar space such as HD 37605b in Orion as well as

      HEAVEN

      FOREWORD

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      Philosophers since the time of the writer Origen and others have visited the idea of the Pool of Souls. It has fostered much conjecture. Simply stated after death the soul is recycled. In science, this is similar to the idea of the Conservation of Matter which states that Matter is neither created nor destroyed but simply changed in form. An example might be an ice cube which can be solid, or vapor (gas-like), or water.

      The Waiting Room Chronicles explores this idea and incorporates some diverse religious doctrine in an effort to illustrate this unique concept. I have always been fascinated by the interplay of religion, mythology, science and philosophy. For instance there are a number of flood stories in mythology and in the literature of various cultures which can be found in religious teaching. The story describes an absurdist cyclicality based upon an unrealistic confidence in Hope.

      This volume includes some poetry and prose which offers a satirical portrayal of our human condition. Also, a short story The Jubilee, further explores the interplay of mythology and religion. It takes place in Alabama during an unusual and isolated southern phenomenon called a jubilee. The

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