Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukChapter 1TYLER GETS ME a job as a waiter after that Tylers pushing a gun in mymouth and saying the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For along time though Tyler and I were best friends. People are always askingdid I know about Tyler Durden.The barrel of the gun pressed against the back of my throat Tyler saysquotWe really wont die.quotWith my tongue I can feel the silencer holes we drilled into the barrel ofthe gun. Most of the noise a gunshot makes is expanding gases and theresthe tiny sonic boom a bullet makes because it travels so fast. To make asilencer you just drill holes in the barrel of the gun a lot of holes. Thislets the gas escape and slows the bullet to below the speed of sound.You drill the holes wrong and the gun will blow off your hand.quotThis isnt really deathquot Tyler says. quotWell be legend. We wont grow old.quotI tongue the barrel into my cheek and say Tyler youre thinking ofvampires.The building were standing on wont be here in ten minutes. You take a98percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to threetimes that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then addglycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.I know this because Tyler knows this.Mix the nitro with sawdust and you have a nice plastic explosive. A lot offolks mix their nitro with cotton and add Epsom salts as a sulfate. Thisworks too. Some folks they use paraffin mixed with nitro. Paraffin hasnever ever worked for me.So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuckin my mouth and we hear glass breaking. Look over the edge. Its acloudy day even this high up. This is the worlds tallest building and thishigh up the wind is always cold. Its so quiet this high up the feeling youget is that youre one of those space monkeys. You do the little job youretrained to do.Pull a lever.Push a button.You dont understand any of it and then you just die.One hundred and ninety-one floors up you look over the edge of the roofand the street below is mottled with a shag carpet of people standinglooking up. The breaking glass is a window right below us. A windowblows out the side of the building and then comes a file cabinet big as ablack refrigerator right below us a six-drawer filing cabinet