"One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but one minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection." I think that this passage creates a very good picture of a greater theme of the novel. I think a larger theme of the novel is perfection and how it doesn't exist. This group of people come together to essentially be imperfect by fighting each other. With the cuts and bruises all over their bodies in their regular daily lives they are physically imperfect. I think there is usually a perfect moment every once in a while and when it does come around it doesn't last for long but every person then looks for it and can recognize it as a perfect moment. This one sentence adds more to the book then any one really notices until the book is finished.
"I am Joe's Boiling Point"(71) I really like the contestant reference to this guy named Joe. He tries to explain his feelings in terms of what is happening to said Joe. I think this adds a lot to the style of Palahniuks writing as an author. It definatly adds to the whole "ADD" generation theory that Mr. Lavender was talking about. Its a little random and very to the point and I enjoy hearing about JOE.
Not only are they imperfect physically, I think they and the rest of the world realize just how imperfect they are inside. They realize how they don't have to be perfect and it helps them enjoy life.
ReplyDeleteI, too, really enjoy the Joe riffs that Chuck keeps coming up with (wonder if he really saw a series about organs describing themselves in the first person?). Good post.
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