Fight Club Quotes.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (17)

This quote is significant because death is inevitable. Everyone you know and love and care for are going to die in the end and so are you. I think the author is trying to make the point that there's no reason to love or fight for someone because they're going to die anyway; you're going to die. There's no point in wasting all the effort when no one is going to remember it. Give it some time and YOU won't even be remembered. One day, the world is going to end. Humans will drop down to zero, and life as we know it will be over. I think this quote represents the main theme of the book because throughout the whole thing, Tyler is always saying you have to hit rock bottom. You have to realize you and all those billions of other people, are going to die. It sucks thinking about it, but it's true.

"Recycling and speed limits are bullshit," Tyler said. "They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed." (125)

I have to admit, the reason why I like this quote so much is that it reminds me of Telluride. Where everything is about recycling and "going green." Not that there's anything wrong with that, I think it's awesome, but this quote has some truth to it. The world is finally realizing that we have some major cleaning up to do, but if you look at the broad picture, it's really too late. We've dug ourselves a HUGE whole and trying to fix everything at the last second just isn't going to cut it. I think that's what this quote is saying. Sure, if you stop smoking because you're on you're dying is great- it makes you feel better about yourself- but in all reality, it's not going to help you, it can't save your life, you're on your death bed. I think this explains why Project Mayhem came into work; the world is ending and there's nothing you can do about it; recycling and speed limits really don't matter in the long run; so why not destroy the world and become famous for it? At least for a little while. I'm not sure if I agree with this quote or not, but it does make an interesting point which is why I underlined it.

Chancee is the best person ever. She's beautiful, intelligent, and I hope to grow up to be just like her!.

"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.

Shannon Looks like a Teacher

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.” At the end of the fight nothing mattered because they were not fighting over anything specific, they were just fighting to fight. The concept about nihilism ties into this phrase because it means nothing matters. To Tyler nothing matters, he brings these men together to fight; but what are they fighting about? These men all come to fight club to fight about something, but they really fight just to get their anger out. But then Tyler always says that he always wants to destroy everything beautiful, burn the Amazon forests and pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up the ozone. Tyler wants to destroy the beautiful things in life. For example in the book he destroys many things, such as buildings. The beauty in buildings is, in my opinion, the structure of them and what goes on in them during the day. These buildings being burned are the buildings of wealth; their business makes a lot of money. But if nothing matters than why do they want to destroy everything?

While reading this book i really liked when Chuck Palahniuk brings up insomnia. For example i high lighted "...i come dragging in with every muscle bruised inside and out, but my heart's still racing and my thoughts are a tornado in my head. This is insomnia." Personally i thought this line was very interesting because he has insomnia, and he cant sleep ever. The only way he can sleep is making himself depressed. He does this by going to meetings for the ill or attending fight club. At night time all he does is thinks, he can't get any rest because of this insomnia. In this book he always is confused if he is sleeping or not, he thinks that he could be dreaming or it could be reality. I just enjoyed reading this because even sometimes i can't sleep, or at other times I think I am sleeping but i am really not.

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Fight Club

9. May I never be complete.

May I never be content.

May I never be perfect.

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

I really like this passage because I feel like this is the narrator's tone in the majority of the book. I feel like he is always doubting himself and relying on Tyler to save him. He always says "I know this because Tyler knows this." I think that he is upset and not comfortable with himself so he relies on Tyler for his happiness.

One of the things I underlined was on page 22 near the middle of the page "This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." I like this quote because sometime it takes forgetting everything and not letting anything bother you for you to feel free and not stressed. There are so many things that can take over your life and just take away from you being yourself. In this situation I think that he is saying that him being able to just forget about everything is freeing him and making him less worried and insecure. If you have hope in something and it isn't happening and it looks like it isn't ever going to happen that hope will over ride you and make you feel like thats all your living for, and you miss out on so many other good aspects of life because you were so focused on that one thing. That is what I think the narorater was thinking when he said this.

Did Donnie Choose?

The movie Donnie Darko centers around a boy stuck in a parellel Universe and his angst filled problems. We watch as he struggles to find himself through normal teen, and abnormal situations. He is haunted by visions of the bunny Frank, and becomes riddled with many Existentialist questions. However, does this make the movie an existentialist movie? I don't think the overall theme of the movie focused on existentialism, (although I'm not really sure what the overall movie theme was) I think the philosophies of existentialism were not presented strongly enough for the film to be included on the "Top 10 Existentialist Films" list.

The biggest problem I have with this being labeled an existentialist film, is the basis of existentialism is that people have free will. They say people have choices and decisions, and there are no predetermined destinies or ultimate truths. Yet in the movie, there are many times in which Donnie is NOT given a choice. For example, he didn't CHOOSE to be transported to the parellel universe. The Artifact that was transported through the time vortex randomly landed on his house, therefore causing him to be the Living Receiver. Once he has been chosen as the living receiver, he must "return the Artifact to the primary universe". If the movie was truly existentialist in nature, Donnie would have a choice to travel between the primary and unstable parallel universes.

Also the weird bubbly things that come out of the characters chests seem to show that people have predetermined paths, even if only into the next room or seconds into the future. This, again, contradicts the views that each moment is requires constant decisions and should therefore be a constant source of anxiety.

But then again maybe I am looking at the whole thing wrong. Perhaps the bubbles only show the persons intent, not their predetermined paths. They may be showing the decisions that the person has already made, but then again why would Donnie's bubble lead him to the gun?

I guess I was just disappointed with how vague the existentialist themes were and also how many contradicted each other, I still liked the movie a lot though :)

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I realize that The Plague by Albert Camus is not such a confusing book as I thought when I began to read it. As I progressed along I found that it was not so much that I was getting confused about what was happening, but rather that I was letting my mind wander during those long series of pages where the narrator would ramble on about seemingly irrelevant topics. As a result the book is about as boring as a late 1940’s movie. I guess it was due to the fact that I was not reading deeply enough into those sections in an attempt to find correlations and higher meanings to the story as a whole. Or maybe I was trying too hard to get stoked and excited by and entirely unexciting book. Now I don’t want to send the wrong message, this book is much better than The Handmaids Tale, and as far as completing the existentialism topic for this month, The Plague does a very good job of giving voice and image to “existence precedes essence.” Maybe I’m just more of a nonfiction kind of person.