10 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment
“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
–from Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Anglofille said @ 11:37 am | literary |
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Gregory Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 2:23 amThe ersatz-nihilism is good, on consumerism, the nesting instinct, it is like a first gang fight,
you get back, you think about what got solved, was straightened out, what got sorted, a flat zero,
But that’s good because you can not fix anything, all over, next week,
it just feels good to beat up on ‘them’ and they so proud about the themness to know to show up.
So they had it coming.
We’re designed to kill things, we are the problem primate, the other great killers, are protected from us
in the Zoo, parks or are staring at us from the ocean’s depths,
And what to do now,
we go shopping.
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You know- I STILL haven’t see Fight Club yet! I’ll have to be sure to do so when I get back to the States.
Have you read Palahniuk’s book this film is based on?
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Gregory Says:
March 12th, 2008 at 2:35 amI think that was the book, his fan club web-site might list film and book quotes separately.
http://www.quotegarden.com/bk-fc.html
(separate listing)
Palahniuk is good at sentences that work, his quotes are not even his, people only think they are.
The funeral home thing, is based on not knowing the customers, and
is like if you have ever been in a car crash, it spins over and over, then a big bang, the noise seems to be from outside like a biscuit tin.
If you have to pull back sheets, then it isn’t the same, that’s scary, that’s caring. Just like in a car when you try to see if your girlfriend is ok.
Otherwise, that biscuit tin noise, is a pretty neat feeling,
‘The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.’
Life is what you read.
But I could never see the point of tuna and sweet corn...
