Dumb question?

The way I read it, the first two stories the narrator is describing, with the third story having happened to the anonymous narrator

is that a new cover for american gods? never seen it. very nice looking. explain...

[QUOTE=big S]is that a new cover for american gods? never seen it. very nice looking. explain...[/QUOTE]

I think it's the British version, not sure though

It is however 87 % more kick ass then the other one

[QUOTE=joeyjord]The third story in Guts, Chuck talks in First person. Did this story happen to him, or am I retarted?[/QUOTE]

Retarted no....maybe retarded lol

I'm not being anal with typo...it's pretty funny to imagine one being retarted.

Tarted again, perhaps?

Yeah, the narrator of Guts uses the first two anecdotes to set-up the third which is a first-person account. And, no, this didn't really happen to Chuck.

Didn't he say it was a story he heard about whilst talking to sex addicts for stories for Choke?

Or maybe he just [I]created it[/I] in his mind and then committed it to paper? I have heard writers do that sort of thing, from time to time.

Romfl.

Tell me I am the only one who noticed the cover- you know- the one that said "New Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk"? Fiction means fake, right?

No, but Chuck researches these things...
Fuck, the place where he said this has been made private, and must be paid to view (that Independent Q&A).

He also makes stuff up.

Uhuh, but I distinctly remember him saying something along the lines of "there were these three stories, and I was praying I didn't lose my memory before I could write them down." Or something.
So, I'm gonna get anal until people concede that I'm right.

Well, first-off, it might be useful to point out that on the bottom of your swimming pool is a [i]drain[/i], not the intake (which is on the side, roughly about the waterline.) There is no suction whatsoever from the drain. Now, a surprizingly large number of people each year [b]are[/b] injured by their pool's inlets. Many of those embarrassingly so; usually, they've tried to insert their penises and gotten caught - the inlet being approximately the diameter of a quarter dollar, the embarrassment (I guess) is largely due to having a penis small enough to fit inside, but I digress. Now, the suction from the inlet [i]may[/i] be tempting, but it can indeed be dangerous to the soft tissues. Can it disembowel a person? I don't believe so.

Call your family doctor and ask what it would take to suck out your colon and most of your large intestine. Call him right back and tell him you only meant hypothetically. Explain, if need be, how this discussion arose, and ask if this is actually possible [u]as[/u] [u]described[/u].

Could be interesting...

thank you tuffy. this thread needed an injection of logic.

"Dear Mrs. Moon,
Yes, those three stories are all true. I know each of those guys. And for years I prayed against alzheimer's until I could find some way to link them and make a story.
All three 'victims' are living normal lives"
-One Mr. C. Palahniuk
"The swimming pool guy, I met in a sex addiction support group, while researching "Choke." It turns out his disasters is fairly common. And it makes for huge law suits."
-This same dude.

Banality wins through yet again.
([URL=http://booktalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@94.xXy4eGQIqNM.0@.685f1c08/88]See it here[/URL])

Chuck lied to Mrs. Moon.

[i]Thimplithity.[/i]

Chuck's publisher, editor, and their legal team would just love that...

[QUOTE] .. Many of those embarrassingly so; usually, they've tried to insert their penises and gotten caught - the inlet being approximately the diameter of a quarter dollar, the embarrassment (I guess) is largely due to having a penis small enough to fit inside, .. [/QUOTE]

Now wait just a cotton pickin' second! a quarter isn't that small, no where near as small as say , a dime ... err.. uhh.. nevermind

Actually, it's usually young boys who find themselves in that predicament... Maybe Chuck is confessing to a childhood trauma in a roundabout way?

[B] VP wags and wagers for the following as the real inspiration for [i]Guts[/i][/B]

"Years ago--and this sort of formed the model for my archetypal sentence, the sentence that comes down to one word--and the sentence is completely innocuous, like a truckload of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, until this one word, which is the trigger. The sentence was in the newspaper years ago when I worked as a bicycle delivery messenger, and it appeared in a consumer health column. And it started out something like, uh, 'Well, the warm weather's back again, spring's here, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and this warm weather is going to draw more and more kids to the local wading pool, where many of these small children will be attracted to the gentle suction of the water inlet port, and some of those children will sit on the port and be instantly disemboweled.'

"I read that sentence like, doo-duh-doo-duh-doo, birds, flowers, SUCTION. And then I came--it lands on--[i]disemboweled[/i], oh, my god. I just remember my hands going numb and the paper fluttering to the floor. And then feeling like this instant rage toward Susie Homemaker who wrote that column, for setting me up for that horrible horrible... [i]and if I can ever write a sentence that is so seductive and so innocuous and then lands on such a horrific moment, then my life will be complete."[/i]

--Chuck Palahniuk, [i]Postcards from the Future[/i] Q&A session.

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Maybe it's also a fair bet that Chuck listened to a Sex Addicts support group guy talk about a serious mishap involving "pearl diving." Then Chuck takes this bit of naked research and combines it creatively with the news story that shocked him so. If you've read the Workshop Q&A's carefully, you've seen Chuck use the phrase "fuzz the details."

Creatively combined truths=good fiction and your own copyright, without needing permission to write a biography or make a documentary about someone.

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Leave it to the Pup to show up with a cool head and hard facts and spoil a perfectly good disagreement.

Yeah, I'm going with that logic.