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Absurd Duty: Six books in one cover
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To live is to serve what cannot be understood.
ABSURD DUTY is the devotion to that impossible task - a six-book descent into the mechanics of meaning, the collapse of certainty, and the sacred comedy of being.
Oren K. Wilder writes from the edge of philosophy and prayer. Across six internal books - each a chamber of the same unfolding paradox - he explores what it means to create, to suffer, to persist, and to surrender when the world refuses to make sense.
This is not philosophy written to explain, but to illuminate the unexplainable.
Each section reads as an act of service - a duty to truth even when truth appears absurd.
Within these pages:
The Unreason of Reason - where logic dissolves into its own reflection.
The Silent Theater - the stage where no one performs, yet everything moves.
Fragments of the Infinite Jest - language as a broken mirror of God.
Between the Real and the Ridiculous - the place where form and chaos embrace.
The Dream of the Observer - when witness and world become one.
Absurd Duty - the final surrender to the holy nonsense of existence.
Absurd Duty belongs to the lineage of Camus, Beckett, and Simone Weil, yet speaks in a voice uniquely modern - crystalline, devotional, and uncompromising.
It is a book for those who can no longer pretend the world makes sense, yet still choose to love it anyway.
To serve the absurd is to honor creation. To bow before chaos is to remember the divine.
A timeless meditation on purpose without reward, faith without promise, and art without audience - this is not just a book, but a vow.
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