For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone.
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We wanted to blast the world free of history.
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Tyler said, picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course.You’ll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five-degree angle. We’ll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what’s left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night.
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“Imagine,” Tyler said, “stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you’ll climb the wristthick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you’ll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles.”
aus Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone.