Fight Club is the second novel I read by Chuck Palahniuk, after having seen the film of the same title. It's funny, but I remember, where I watched the movie. I watched it with my father in Florida, it was late one night, and it was after we'd already watched "A Clockwork Orange," which was his film of choice.
We sat on our "Golden Girls" pale violet couch with embroidered and paler "Birds of Paradise" flowers, and palms, and we settled down for a father-daughter movie night. He had his vodka, I had my corner.
My mother and sister were fast asleep. My mother didn't really like me watching "these types of films," she thought I was already too dark, and impressionable, and perhaps, she was right, but this was before the drugs, this was before the men, this was before I left Clark and the scholarship. I was just your average overachiever in high school already struggling with the illusion, she had so meticulously mapped out.
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"Forget her, she's a predator posing as a house
pet." - Tyler Durden
Above, Tyler gives the nameless narrator an
interesting description of Marla Singer, who has
permeated both of their lives, but reality, we
wonder who is Marla Singer?
Us readers don't know very much
about Marla. Is Marla Singer real? What does she represent? Marla in a sense is the female counterpart to a "generation of men raised by women." Marla, if real is a "generation of women raised by women (or raised without men). Marla's mother is mentioned.
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ReplyDeleteThis world of empty names and forms, which are the imagination of the five senses and an appearance in the pure Supreme Self, should be understood to be the mysterious play of Maya, the mind, which rises as if real from Self, Sat-Chit.
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