Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Shannon looks like a teacher, which is just another way of saying that she is both intelligent AND gorgeous.

"One a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero." --- pg 17
This follows the theme that what most people do in their life has no effect. Everyone becomes a corpse 6 feet underground with out any to show what they did for the world. The theme of project Mayhem is to release the world from conformity. To release people into freedom. We pace through life at a social clock. We have our first kiss, we have sex, we go to college, we get a job, we find love, we marry, we have kids, we raise them well, we retire, then we die. We all go through this monotonous cycle. Everyone having to go through these steps. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. etc. Eventually, we all die. Period. Tyler shows the narrator that he can choose his life. He can choose where it leads. He doesn't have to be his boss's little bitch. Most of us don't do anything other than obey this social clock.

"Please. I smile big enough to split my lips."----pg 117
This is when the narrator is threatening the president of the hotel he was working for. He is getting fired and instead of just pouting about it like most people, the narrator takes Tyler's advice and threatens the president that he will let the newspapers know of his little deeds. Pissing in soups, farting on creme brulees. He starts punching himself, knocking himself into the wall. He is in a physical fight by himself. Yet it looks like the president did it to him. Who in their right mind would punch his own face? The narrator smiles so big that he splits his lips. I picked this line because it shows how crazy he is. How he has transformed into"a monster."

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