The protagonist was alluding to the Anarchist Cookbook, anyone else noticed this?
"I say, it sounds like some dangerous psychotic killer wrote this, and this buttoned-down schizophrenic could probably go over the edge at any moment in the working day and stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-180 carbine gas-operated semiautomatic."
"Maybe, I say, this totally diseased fuck would use an Eagle Apache carbine because an Apache takes a thirty-shot mag and only weighs nine pounds. The Armalite only takes a five-round magazine. With thirty shots, our totally fucked hero could go the length of mahogany row and take out every vice president with a cartridge left over for each director."
"The J and R 68 semiautomatic carbine also takes a thirty-shot mag, and it only weighs seven pounds."
That's straight out of the Cookbook, remembered somewhat while I was reading it. Page 95 from http://preterhuman.net/texts/terrorism_and_pyrotechnics/explosives/MISC/... Going to re-read Fight Club to see what connections can be made.
I haven't read the anarchist cookbook thouroghly or recently enough to have noticed. The only time I ever did take a gander at it, I completely skipped all the stuff on weapons because I had no interest in that stuff.
Your link isn't working so I can't see what exactly you are talking about.
I'm pretty sure he used that book as a reference for the explosives recipes too. It's not a groundbreaking find, but yeah, go ahead and underline every area in Fight Club where Chuck has done made some research. I dare you.
Also, your URL doesn't work.
I've often wondered how an anarchist would bake muffins.
Ever watched Stranger than Fiction?
My bad for messing up the link copy-paste, edited now.
Funny things about The Anarchist Cookbook:
- William Powell was 17 when he wrote it.
- He compiled it in his local public library, having looked up most of the "information" from books he found there. Some of them fiction.
- He never actually tested any of the recipes (drugs, bombs, any of it) that he put in the book.
- Thanks for the pdf. Now I have The Anarchist Cookbook: The Kindle Edition!
This is why we can't have nice things.
william powell? The Thin Man dude?
Ted Kazcinski's apple brown betty is to die for!!
No, William Powell the former long-haired hippy kid.
This is why we can't have nice things.
- Thanks for the pdf. Now I have The Anarchist Cookbook: The Kindle Edition!
no doubt.
"Maybe, I say, this totally diseased fuck would use an Eagle Apache carbine because an Apache takes a thirty-shot mag and only weighs nine pounds. The Armalite only takes a five-round magazine. With thirty shots, our totally fucked hero could go the length of mahogany row and take out every vice president with a cartridge left over for each director."
"The J and R 68 semiautomatic carbine also takes a thirty-shot mag, and it only weighs seven pounds."
That's straight out of the Cookbook, remembered somewhat while I was reading it. Page 95 from http://preterhuman.net/texts/terrorism_and_pyrotechnics/explosives/MISC/... Going to re-read Fight Club to see what connections can be made.
I'm looking aty page 95 right now and I really don't see what you are refering too.
The way you worded the topic here it sounds like you are pointing out near plagiarism.
If you just mean the weapons are described similarily then that isn't really "straight out of" anything, the descriptions could have come from any source of weapon enthusiasm.
I think there's a project brewing in my mind called, "The Anarchist Cooking Book". It'll shine light on the muffin issue, as well as many other tasty temptations for the palate.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Right before you posted I was thinking we should consult you on the muffin issue.
This is a project I can get behind.
I used to have a recipe bookmarked for Black Metal Muffins that used all-black ingredients. Can't find it just now, but it would be perfect for this Cooking Book.
This is why we can't have nice things.
The FbI is probably monitoring this thread closely:P
Probably not.
This is why we can't have nice things.
- William Powell was 17 when he wrote it.
- He compiled it in his local public library, having looked up most of the "information" from books he found there. Some of them fiction.
- He never actually tested any of the recipes (drugs, bombs, any of it) that he put in the book.
- Thanks for the pdf. Now I have The Anarchist Cookbook: The Kindle Edition!
Wow that's really interesting. I can remember the Anarachist Cookbook spread much like an Urban Legend, or the Faces of Death phenomenon, this was before social media, but it still traveled at lightning speeds. "Back in the day", everyone thought it was a blacklisted book of debauchery that was 100% legit. Interesting to find years later, that it's really just a work of fiction from an angst ridden teen.
You do that, then report back here you little Space Monkey.