Rooms Where Meaning Drifts: A Chronicle of Misunderstood Virtues

By Abhay Singh

A litany of meditations on the friction between individual temperament and the demands of history.

"Rice steam and cedar arrived before the person did."

Across spans of time and geography-from the Ganges Plain in 2600 BCE to the high Andes and 8th Century Persia-the same fundamental human dramas play out in quiet rooms. In this sweeping collection of 130 micro-chapters, archetypal figures like The Cartographer, The Reformer, and The Photographer face the crushing weight of institutional pressure: empire, orthodoxy, and hunger.

Society tries to simplify these difficult individuals, assigning them simplistic animal traits-a "marmot-charge" or a "polecat-rumble." But beneath these labels lie vital human defenses. Rooms Where Meaning Drifts operates as a philosophical encyclopedia disguised as fiction, exploring the idea that our most misunderstood traits-stubbornness, slowness, volatility-are often evolutionary adaptations meant to protect the community from its own worst impulses.

Atmospheric, rigorous, and fiercely humanistic, these parables ask: When the doors of bureaucracy close, what virtues are locked outside?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G76ZGFLH
• ISBN13: 9798278829812
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"