Fiction Empire

Furniture

Njurunda Table
Clever coffee table in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang that fit together to make a circle.

Our Lady of Lourdes

Healthcare

Hospitals

Our Lady of Lourdes
Where narrator's mother had mastectomy.

Paper Street Soap Company

Industrial Companies

Manufacturing

Paper Street Soap Company
Nordstrom's ordered 200 bars of Tyler's brown sugar facial soap.

Pressman Hotel

Travel

Hotels

Pressman Hotel
Where the narrator works as a banquet waiter, part time.

Regent Hotel

Travel

Hotels

Regent Hotel
Where Marla lives, where brown bricks are held together with sleaze.

Remaining Men Together

Healthcare

Support Groups

Remaining Men Together
Support group for Testicular Cancer where the narrator meets Bob with bitch tits.

Rislampa/Har Paper Lamp

Lighting

Rislampa/Har Paper Lamp
Made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper.

Steg Nesting Tables

Furniture

Steg Nesting Tables

Trinity Episcopal

Religion

Religious Organizations

Trinity Episcopal
Church basement is where narrator cries in Bob's bitch tits during Remaining Men Together meetings.

Vild Hall Clock

Clocks

Vild Hall Clock
Made of galvanized steel.

MAKE BELIEVE MAP

Benning

Transit Routes

Thoroughfares

Benning
Raymond K. Hessel's street. Full address: 1320 SE Benning, apartment A.

Budweiser World

Planets

Budweiser World
When deep space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the mega tonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them.

Hein Tower

Structures

Towers

Hein Tower
Where Project Mayhem painted a grinning 5 story mask and set fire to eyes.

The IBM Stellar Sphere

Star Clusters

The IBM Stellar Sphere
When deep space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the mega tonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them.

Paper Street

Transit Routes

Streets

Paper Street
Location of Tyler's rented house: 5123 NE Paper Street.

Parker-Morris Building

Structures

Buildings

Parker-Morris Building
The building the guys are at the top of when the novel starts that Tyler's going to blow up. His real target is the National Museum.

The Philip Morris Galaxy

Regions of Space

The Philip Morris Galaxy
When deep space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the mega tonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them.

Planet Denny's

Planets

Planet Denny's
When deep space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the mega tonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them.

OTHER

Bob

Bob
Bob: Huevos. Gonads. Nuts. Jewels. Testes. Balls. In Mexico, where you buy your steroids, they call them eggs.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: For two years, Chloe's been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. Oh, the proof that one day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm-buffet.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Is Tyler my bad dream? Or am I Tyler's?

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler had sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: The security asked my name and address and phone number, and then he asked me what was the difference between a condom and a cockpit. 'You can only get one prick into a condom,' he said.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Eyes closed, we imagined our pain as a ball of white healing light floating around our feet and rising to our knees, our waist, our chest. Our chakras opening. The heart chakra. The head chakra. Chloe talked us into caves where we meet our power animal. Mine was a penguin.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: A single frame in a movie is on the screen for one-sixtieth of a second. Divide a second into sixty different parts. That's how long the erection is. Towering four stories tall over the popcorn auditorium, slippery red and terrible, and no one sees it.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: After a night at fight club, everything in the real world gets the volumn turned down. Nothing can piss you off, your word is law, and if other people break the law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The marketing brochure promised a foot of concrete floor, ceiling, and wall between between me and any adjacent stereo or turn-up television. a foot of concrete was important when your next-door neighbour lets the battery on her hearing aid go and has to watch her game shows at full blast. Or when a volcanic blast of burning gas and debris that used to be your living-room set and personal effects blows out your floor to ceiling windows and sails down flaming to leave just your condo, only yours, a gutted charred concrete hole in the cliffside of the building.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: I found stacks and stacks of Reader's Digest in the basement, and now there's a pile of Reader's Digest in every room. In the oldest magazines, there's a series of articles where organs in the human body talk about themselves in the first person: I am Jane's uterus. I am Joe's Prostrate. I am Joe's Gallbladder. I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct. I am Joe's Grinding Teeth. I am Joe's Inflamed Flaring Nostrils. I am Joe's White Knuckles. I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection. I am Joe's Clenching Bowels.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Narrator

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in the group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I cried harder. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: The old theatres that run a movie with two projectors, a projectionist has to stand right there to change projectors at the exact second so that the audience never sees the break when one reel starts and one reel ran out. You have to look for the white dots at the top, right-hand corner of the screen. This is the warning. Watch the movie, and you'll see two dots at the end of the reel.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: I've met god across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and god asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see that we're all manifestations of love? I look at god behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but god's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And god says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach god anything.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall? You take the population of vehicles in the field - A, and multiply it by the probable rate of failure - B, then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement - C. A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.

Narrator

Narrator
Narrator: I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing any more to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste.

Project Mayhem

Criminals

Criminal Organizations

Project Mayhem
Committees: arson, assault, mischief, misinformation.

Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden
Tyler Durden: We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that social emasculation this everyman is created.

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