''The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.''

.…seems Dean Koontz agrees with your ‘siggy’ quote, Reg…

excerpt from Odd Hours (any mistakes in the reprint are mine completely)

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Although I intended to sit in the front pew until my braided nerves untwisted, I settled on the floor because the dog needed to have his tummy rubbed. He had earned all the affection---and more---that I could give him in my current distracted state of mind.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made---which is different from the world that it was given---my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world.

The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose.  The man-made world, on the other hand, is a perverse realm of ego and envy, where power-mad cynics make false idols of themselves and where the meek have no inheritance because they have gladly surrendered it to their idols in return not for lasting glory but for an occasional parade, not for bread but for the promise of bread.

A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness, as amusing as the great movie comedians like Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and the many others who knew that a foot stuck in a bucket is funny, that a head stuck in a bucket is funnier, and that trying stubbornly to move a grand piano up a set of stairs obviously too steep and narrow to allow success is the hilarious distillation of the human experience.    

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