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Tiptoe Through the Zeitgeist
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is a widespread belief that the world makes sense.
This belief is almost certainly incorrect.
In Tiptoe Through the Zeitgeist, Bill Schmalfeldt invites readers into a universe where common sense has quietly packed its bags and moved somewhere less stressful. Here, bureaucratic regulations breed like rabbits, ordinary people confront extraordinary nonsense with remarkable patience, and the line separating the sensible from the ridiculous has become largely theoretical.
Whether it's a simple misunderstanding that spirals into administrative madness, an everyday inconvenience that escalates into a crisis of civilization, or the curious realization that modern life is already stranger than fiction, these stories find comedy in the places most people are too busy shaking their heads to notice.
With wit, warmth, and an eye for the absurd, Schmalfeldt explores the delightful possibility that reality isn't broken at all-it simply has a very peculiar sense of humor.
From talking cats and apocalyptic morning television, to immortal mosquitoes, honey, badgers, demanding better, public relations, philosophical poems, reinvented, fairytales, and ordinary people confronting gloriously, observed circumstances, these stories balance satire with warmth, with melancholy, and laughter with the occasional uncomfortable truth.
If you've ever looked at the modern world and thought, Surely someone is making this up, Tiptoe Through the Zeitgeist is the book you've been waiting for.
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