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The Books of Angelhaunt
Volume II

is now available from Amazon.com.

In the final four Angelhaunt books, Jason Stuart Ratcliff further develops the role of the artist as prophet.

482 pages
$23.95

There is no need to read Volume I first.

These final four Angelhaunt books are at once philosophy and works of art. Ratcliff has created in these four books both poetry and religion, both blasphemy and a completely original cosmology. Ratcliff has looked into himself, found both treasures and terrors, and made works only a madman could create.


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*There is no need to read Volume I first.*

Volume II includes:

Portraits
Ahab in Three Acts: an apocalypse
The Dream Project: a sequence
Legal Impossibility: a cosmology

*I am offering the full texts of all Books of Angelhaunt online right here. The copies for sale at Amazon and elsewhere are for those who wish to read them comfortably on a couch instead of on the computer.*


Here is the full text of

Legal Impossibility:
a cosmology

[A dark rooster]   [We bring in foreign objects]   [Each man, each woman is a world]   [The cords have been cut]   [Charlie thinks the Mexicans would make good allies]   [I am not a messiah]   [Listen to my soft voice]   [The sun comes up over the city]   [There you have it]   [These roses]   [Legal impossibility is put into the air]   [The System is poison for the people]   [I have made a thorough investigation into all these things]   [The prophet Ezekiel]   [Prophet, tell me all these mysteries]   [Is heaven, then, our final goal?]   [What are the crimes that land us in hell?]   [How can this be?]   [But is this not selfish of them?]   [Why could not God create only good souls?]   [Are we on a hell world on this earth or a heaven world?]   [Are the ones who suffer in this world more wicked than the ones who are happy]   [What is the System that runs this world?]   [All of this was said the first night Ezekiel stayed with me]   [When I awoke, Ezekiel was gone]   [A perfect catch-22]   [In the war between sleep and wakefulness]   [God does not forgive]   [Since this is a hell world]   [The reflections: the hallucinations]   [I was much troubled]   [When we got back to my apartment]   [I can ask you no question]   [Prana seems such a mystery]   [You mean our currency is based only on?]   [How does Prana increase when it is given?]   [If science learns of Prana?]   [But what is this meaningless string of aims and goals?]   [I went off to bed]   [He knew he had been asleep]   [William Blake and I]   [There are cords reaching out from my heart]   [When one gets too used to reading]   [He found himself on a ship]   [There was once a Leftist]   [In a seaside town]   [Her hair was tassled]   [Ezekiel wandered the streets alone]   [One night I was sitting and smoking excessively]   [Everything in the world is empty]   [How does one realize the absurdity of life?]   [What is it like in moments of realization?]   [What is the goal of religion?]   [What is it to be a prophet?]   [Our conversation was inturrupted]   [The cavalry went out]   [It was some sort of electric beacon]   [Just after you are born]   [We say of the 1800s]   [I like the look of a clean, straight, unbroken line]   [I once wrote a poem]   [Look here]   [You could spend months on it]   [His fists were concrete blocks]   [Charlie came by today]

[Part 2: The Pentecost]