just wait and see

I love “Fight Club”.It is my favourite film of all time, and because of this reason I read the novel. I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would but this was probably due to the sheer number of times I have seen the film.

But there was a few amazingly insightful anecdotes I found, including this one on the moment of perfection.

In the novel the first encounter with Tyler is at a beach. He is placing body sized logs vertically in the sand and after a good deal of time he has five of them placed closely together. Then he sits in front of them for a minute before getting up to leave.

When asked about it he reveals that he has created a shadow that looks like a giant hand. But because the sun moves this shadow only maintains its shape for 1 minute.

So for that 1 minute he sat in his perfect hand.

Because that is as long as you can expect perfection to last.