![]() You could lose yourself in the Sears catalogue. Swimming behind the eBook words of Jane Austen, that slack, dead-eyed zombie face, that’s yours. Here’s your worst-ever passport photo enlarged to life size. Fewer people shut down their computers anymore, and who can blame them? The moment that monitor goes black, you’re looking at yourself, not smiling, not anything. Or, lurking in the glassy surface of online porn, there you are. In that electric mirror, there hovers your faint image. And no matter what the technology, you’ll catch sight of your own reflection. Nowadays, whatever purchase you moon over, whatever person you lust after, most likely it’s presented on a smooth glass or plastic screen. This modern world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. By now you imagine I’m wearing a bowler hat and a celluloid collar, driving my horseless carriage, lickety-split, to a torrid three-way with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Abraham Lincoln.Īs opposed to you, you who’ll always stay so young and hip.īe that as it may. Please don’t ask me to explain what a telephone book was. Imagine the entire Internet printed on paper and bound along one edge–a stack of glossy paper as thick as a telephone book. It was an inventory of everything you ever dreamed of owning. It kills me that I now need to explain what that was. ![]() This is how old I am: I loved the Sears catalogue. The following is the introduction to Invisible Monsters Remix (W.W. As Palahniuk knows, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. ![]() Intertwined are new chapters: some featuring the characters in the book, others recounting events in the author’s life. In this revised edition, the reader is invited to jump throughout the book. Published as his third novel, it was written first. He wanted the novel “to be a little unknowable.” As a new author, he ultimately gave the book a linear structure. Originally inspired as a work that would echo the Vogues he read while going to the laundromat, Chuck Palahniuk had wanted the chapters in Invisible Monsters to break the normally straight line of fiction and bounce around, as did the articles in fashion magazines. ![]() In this newer version, Palahniuk breaks away from the linear format of mainstream novels. “Invisible Monsters Remix” is a revamped version of Chuck Palahniuk’s original book. ![]()
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