After finally graduating I was able to finish Fight Club, which I’ve been trying to read for two semesters. Here are just a few quotes I enjoyed.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.

pg 21.

The insomnia distance of everything, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.

pg 97

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you’ve ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life.

pg 155

In the projection booth, Tyler did changeovers if the theater was old enough.  With changeovers, you have two projectors in the booth, and one projector is running.
I know this because Tyler knows this.
The second projector is set up with the next reel of film.  Most movies are six or seven reels of film played in a certain order.  Newer theaters, tey splice all the reels together into one five-foot reel.  This way, you don’t have to run two projectors and do changeovers, switch back and forth, reel one, switch, reel two on the other projector, switch, reel three on the first projector.
Switch.
…
Old theater, new theater, to ship a movie to the next theater, Tyler has to break the movie back down to the original six or seven reels.  The small reels pack into a pair of hexagonal steel suitcases.  Each suitcase has a handle on top.  Pick up one, and you’ll dislocate a shoulder.  They weigh that much.
Tyler’s a banquet waiter, waiting tables at a hotel, downtown, and Tyler’s a projectionist with the projector operator’s union.  I don’t know how long Tyler had been working on all those nights I couldn’t sleep.
The old theaters that run a movie with two projectors, a projectionist has to stand right there to change projectors at the eexact second so the audience never sees the break when one reel starts and one reel ran out.  You have to look for the white dots in 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 a reel.
“Cigarette burns,” they’re called in the business.
The first white dot, this is the two-minute warning. You get the second projector started so it will be running up to speed.
The second white dot is the five-second warning. Excitement. You’re standing between the two projectors and the booth is sweating hot from the xenon bulbs that if you looked right at them you’re blind. The first dot flashes on the screen.  The sound in a movie comes from a big speaker behind the screen. The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside the booth is the racket of sprockets snapping film past he lens at six feet a second, ten frames a foot, sixty frames a second (sic) snapping through, clattering Gatling-fun fire.  The two projectors running, you stand between and hold the shutter lever on each. On really old projectors, you have an alarm on the hub of the feed reel.

pg 26-27

Of course, we all know that projectors do not run at 60 frames per second, but I will allow Palahniuk a pass. The rest is pretty spot on.