The narrator is suffering through his chemical burn. He's trying to overcome the feeling of pain through meditation. Tyler encourages him to stop that nonsense and focus on his pain. There's talk of pee. On the blarny stone, in creme angelese. The narrator pees his pants and Tyler pours vineger on the hand to nutrilize the chemical burn.
ch 10 pg 79
The narrator and tyler are working a catering job. Tyler is peeing in soup. Tyler once put a note amidst a rich lady's prefume bottles at a house he was doing a catering job at saying he'd peed in one of her perfume bottles. Tyler told all the rest of the caterers that he'd done this. He declared that they should tattle on him so he'd get fired. The best thing that could happen to them is they could get fired. Then maybe they can start doing something with their lives. The pee note drove the rich lady nuts. She smashed all her perfume bottiles in the toilet until her hands were bleeding. She had to be taken away for her own safety.
ch 11 pg 86
Tyler and the narrator are eating Chinese food in an impala. They just bought this impala. Why? They need a car that's good to sleep in. Why? Because Marla has taken over their house. They're worried she's going to do very bad things to them and the house. Why? Because they boiled her mother. Not her whole, just some of the fat her mother sent her for lip pumping and dewrinkling purposes. Tyler used it to make soap. Soap he's selling to nordstroms for a small fortune. With this soap money the narrator is hoping he can quit his job.
Ch 12 pg 95
Narrator's boss has the fight club rules in a piece of paper. Tyler told Narrator to make 10 copies. The boss has the narrator s orogional. Why the he'll did Tyler need ten copies? The narrator suggests that whoever wrote that list might go postal on the office of the boss pushes the issue. The punchline being that the boss shouldnt bRing every odd piece of paper to him and harass him about it. narrator goes to the testicular cancer care support group and the only one there is big Bob. The narrator thought maybe Bob as dead. Bob thought the same thing about the narrator. But back to what's important. Where is everyone? They've got something new. The first two rules of which are that he can't talk about it. This freaks the narrator out a bit cause Bob talks about all these fight clubs he is completely unaware of. Then Bob asks if he knows Tyler Durden.
Ch 13 pg 102
Marla calls our narrator and he goes over to her place. She lives on meals on wheels that get delivered to her dead neighbors. She found a lump in her breast and she wants narrator to check. He does this and in the midst of it he tells the story of the time he had a wort removed from his penis at a medical school. At one point a bunch of folk come in to look at his foot cause they think he makes guy have this new cancer that's manifesting in young men as red splotches on their feet. It wasn't cancer. He didn't find a lump in Marla's breast. Fun side thing. He has gone ice skating with his grandpa on thanksgiving every year until this one.
Ch 14 pg 107
It was another breast lump scare that motivated Marla to start going to support groups. She found a lump and went to the free clinic to have it checked out. But she got scared and.left cause she's rather not kniw. She decided to go to support groups instead. At one point she had a job. At a funeral home. Made me think of Sandy. The cops call narrator to tell him his apartment was blown up by home made dynamite. Tyler is talking a bunch of anti possession liberation stuff while the narrator is on the phone. He says just tell them you blew it up. That's what they want to hear. Narrator tells the cop he loved every possession in the condo. That wasn't just stuff that blew up in there. It was him.
Ch 15 pg 112
Tyler is getting fired by the protectionist union. He says that's fine as long as they keep paying him. If they don't he's going to tell the press about the pornography that's getting spliced into family films. The union guy is not pleased and punches Tyler a lot. But Tyler gets the money. Narrator is told by Tyler to do the same with the manager of the pressman hotel where they've been doing catering jobs and befowling the food. The hotel manager doesn't seem to believe narrator. So narrator picks up the phone and calls the paper and starts to tell them about his class warfare campaign of peeing in rich peoples food. The hotel manager takes the phone and hangs it up. At this point narrator punches himself. It reminds him of his first fight with Tyler. He punches himself a bunch more and throws himself through a glass set of shelves. He's really beat to help when the security guy comes in to she him holding onto the managers belt begging him to stop. Now they don't have to work nights so they can focus on fight club. There are now 23 fight clubs.
Ch 16 pg 118
Tyler has kicked figgtclub up a notch and now they're trying to destroy society via something he calls project mayhem. Project mayhem has five rules.
1. Don't ask questions
2. Don't ask questions
3. No excuses.
4 no.lies
5 trust Tyler
They do things like blow up offices in large byulsings to be the eyes of a monstrous face they spray paint on the side of the building. They go out and pick fights and lose them on purpose. They do.lots of random violence and destruction. The idea is to make society hit rock bottom just like fight club makes individual people hit rock bottom. In a way this in the narrator's fault. There was one night where he beat the hell out of a new guy at fightclub. He wanted to do more than that. He wanted to destroy all the beautiful things he couldn't have and he took it out on this new guy cause he was a pretty boy. Tyler knew at that moment fight club was broken. He could shut it down or take it up a notch. Up a notch is project mayhem.
CH 17 pg 127
Narrator's boss finds another suspicious paper on the copy machine. It's a list of the required items for an applicant. These people come to the paper street house. They're applying to live there. Or maybe this is applying for project mayhem. It's not clear. New applicants are discouraged and not let into the house. They just wait on the porch. If they do it for three days they're accepted. Notable accepteds are big Bob and angel face narrator beat up. Lots of guys from fight club have come to gave up their lives to Tyler. He has built bunk beds in the basement. Room for 72 in the basement. They're making soap and growing herbs to put into soap. Some guys are responsible for stealing fat time make soap with. Everyone knows their job. Clean toilets, clean bowls, tend the garden. Etc. Everyone does their little job. Narrator assumes Tyler has the full loan and only he knows it. He's been fine for a while. He goes to fight clubs and asks if anyone has seen Tyler. Gets a lot of responses like "none of us has ever met Tyler Burden, SIR. *WINK*" Narrator hangs out with Marla and eats peanut butter sandwiches and drinks vodka and misses Tyler now. He's sad and his life is ending one hour at a time.
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