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In the world of Fight Club, healthy young
people go to meetings of cancer support
groups because only there can they find
human warmth and compassion. It's a world
where young men gather in the basements of bars
to fight strangers "just as long as they
have to." And it's a world where "nobody
cared if he lived or died, and the feeling
was f---ing mutual." Messianic nihilist
Tyler Durden is the inventor of Fight Club.
Soon thousands of young men across the
country are reporting to their work cubes
with flattened noses, blackened eyes, and
shattered teeth, looking forward to their
next bare-knuckle maiming. The oracular,
increasingly mysterious Durden then begins
to harness
the despair, alienation, . and
violence he sees
so clearly into complete anarchy.
