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Baseline: A Novel of Seeking Without End
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 4 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evan has always lived with too much inside his head-too much noise, too much pressure, too much awareness of himself in the world. From an early age, he searches for quiet. Not escape. Not pleasure. Just relief.
What begins as experimentation becomes discipline. What feels like insight hardens into logic. Evan learns to reduce interference, to strip away anything that destabilizes him, until calm is no longer temporary but reproducible. The silence works. It feels earned. It feels correct.
And then it begins to cost him things he doesn't know how to miss.
As concern turns into intervention, and care into containment, Evan is forced back into a world he no longer recognizes-a world loud with emotion, memory, and pain. The very suffering he tried to eliminate returns unfiltered, demanding to be felt all at once.
Baseline is a psychological and existential novel about the search for enlightenment, the seduction of optimization, and the danger of mistaking numbness for peace. It is not a cautionary tale about excess or curiosity, but a quiet tragedy about what happens when the desire to be finished overtakes the willingness to remain.
Some silences heal.
Others erase.
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