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Off-Hand SketchesA Little Dashed With Humor (Edition1)

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Off-hand sketches: A little dashed with humor presents observations sharpened by insight into social expectations, personal transformation, and human contradiction. The sketches subtly explore how ideals are tested in unfamiliar or unreceptive settings, using moments of discomfort or irony to reflect broader tensions. Rather than focusing on personal journeys, the work builds awareness of everyday encounters where values are examined against indifference, cultural inertia, or rigid customs. The narrative emphasizes the quiet persistence of principle even when recognition is withheld, turning attention to how conviction can function in silence or solitude. Through layered scenes, the book draws attention to the cost of moral engagement in an unreceptive world, making clear that change often begins in unnoticed or uncelebrated effort. Without relying on overt conflict, it reveals how social dynamics resist newcomers, ideas, or reform while slowly shaping them in return. Humor plays a careful role, not to undermine gravity but to soften its expression, reminding the reader that even sincere effort is often met with absurdity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Double 9 Books LLP
Country
IN
Date
15 May 2025
Pages
138
ISBN
9789371462105

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Off-hand sketches: A little dashed with humor presents observations sharpened by insight into social expectations, personal transformation, and human contradiction. The sketches subtly explore how ideals are tested in unfamiliar or unreceptive settings, using moments of discomfort or irony to reflect broader tensions. Rather than focusing on personal journeys, the work builds awareness of everyday encounters where values are examined against indifference, cultural inertia, or rigid customs. The narrative emphasizes the quiet persistence of principle even when recognition is withheld, turning attention to how conviction can function in silence or solitude. Through layered scenes, the book draws attention to the cost of moral engagement in an unreceptive world, making clear that change often begins in unnoticed or uncelebrated effort. Without relying on overt conflict, it reveals how social dynamics resist newcomers, ideas, or reform while slowly shaping them in return. Humor plays a careful role, not to undermine gravity but to soften its expression, reminding the reader that even sincere effort is often met with absurdity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Double 9 Books LLP
Country
IN
Date
15 May 2025
Pages
138
ISBN
9789371462105