(December 15, 2019 at 6:57 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: The parallel was intentional on the authors part, explicit in the dialogue, even. Our fathers being our models for god, and tyler durden the father figure of all of his little space monkeys. Insert pithy comments on abandonment here. The main thrust of the story, though, was that the unnamed protagonist was, ultimately, the disordered hallucination of the mind that housed them both. Durden wasn't doing things while he was sleeping, he was what Durden did in his sleep. An unsatisfying and false version of self imposed and programmed by society and it's expectations.
(This stuff is clearer when you understand that the context of the novel as the author saw it was..I shit you not......a "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" for men.)
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