Everything you say is true, but the Illuminatus! Trilogy also presents some serious philosophy sandwiched between the raunchiness and silliness. For example the SNAFU principle is a reasonable explanation for a lot of what we see in large organizations. Also, expanding Hegelian dialectic by adding Parenthesis and Synthesis to fit the Law of Fives is tongue in cheek, but in a haha only serious kind of way.
Indeed. I also like how it demands attention from the reader, for example by sometimes changing the character PoV on a sentence-by-sentence basis, between characters who are sometimes themselves unreliable narrators.
