The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Did you ever watch The Prisoner? Remember how it was really weird but you could still sort of follow it from episode to episode, and you kept watching because in the end, you figured it would make a kind of sense? And then it didn't, because the ending was really weird?Yeah.
 - G.K. Chesterton, Kingsley Amis)