Robert Anton Wilson is all about the ontological quicksand.

A catapult! Marvellous. I'm glad to hear the rest is more horrendous, like jokes about the military, because that's all I got. And, yeah, lots of people in mountain-climbing accidents and stuff, now that you mention it. (I didn't actually read Reader's Digest a lot, but my grandparents got it and if my parents were late picking us up or I'd misjudged how long it'd take me to re-read all of the books I had there, I would grudgingly pick it up.)