"The fighting wasn't the important part of the story. Palahniuk decided on the rules of fight club first. He decided that he needed something like a chorus, a "transitional device", to signal a change in scene to the reader. In this manner, he could focus on key moments in a story and then leap to the next moment, in an almost cinematic manner. Palahniuk desired a way to cut from scene to scene in a written story without losing the reader. The author received photographs from strangers with bruised and battered faces, evidence of their own fight clubs.īefore any of these things happened, Palahniuk says, there was a short story that he wrote to get through an afternoon at his job. Rumble Boys, Inc., released a line of mens' grooming products labeled with Tyler Durden quotes. Actual fight clubs were discovered in universities and in the basements of Mormon churches. Tyler Durden himself became a shorthand for rebellion. He mentions how the look of Fight Club film was appropriated by fashion icons like Donatella Versace and how Dolce Gabbana launched a men's line that copied Tyler Durden's wardrobe in the film. Palahniuk reflects on how his short story went on to become a novel, and then a film.
The cowboy's response is, "There was a book?" The cowboy recites the line, "The first rule of the Haunted Tunnel Tour is you don't talk about the Haunted Tunnel Tour." Palahniuk informs the cowboy that he wrote that book. Palahniuk starts with a humorous anecdote in which he is seemingly the lone participant on the "Haunted Tunnel Tour", hosted by a cowboy who has been drinking. He also reflects on how the novel came to take shape.
In copies of the novel published after 2005, Palahniuk included a brief afterword detailing how the cultural impact of the book and film have affected his life.
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