DiaryMisty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date. |
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... Angel Dela- porte and Misty Marie . In art school , you learn that Leonardo da Vinci's painting , the Mona Lisa , it has no eyebrows because they were the last detail the artist added . He was putting wet paint onto dry . In the ...
... Angel Dela- porte and Misty Marie . In art school , you learn that Leonardo da Vinci's painting , the Mona Lisa , it has no eyebrows because they were the last detail the artist added . He was putting wet paint onto dry . In the ...
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... Angel Delaporte shows Misty the dining room , the wainscoting and blue - striped wallpaper . Halfway up one wall is a busted hole of curling , torn paper and plaster dust . Masons , she tells him , they'll mortar a charm.
... Angel Delaporte shows Misty the dining room , the wainscoting and blue - striped wallpaper . Halfway up one wall is a busted hole of curling , torn paper and plaster dust . Masons , she tells him , they'll mortar a charm.
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... Angel Delaporte stares into the dark and says , " . . . now I see my wife working at the Waytansea Hotel , cleaning rooms and turning into a fat fuck- ing slob in a pink plastic uniform ... " Mr. Delaporte says , " ... She comes home ...
... Angel Delaporte stares into the dark and says , " . . . now I see my wife working at the Waytansea Hotel , cleaning rooms and turning into a fat fuck- ing slob in a pink plastic uniform ... " Mr. Delaporte says , " ... She comes home ...
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... Angel Delaporte says , " Tell Mr. Wilmot that he spelled terrible wrong . " These summer people , poor Misty , she tells them , Mr. Wilmot wasn't himself for the last year or so . He had a brain tumor he didn't know about for - we don't ...
... Angel Delaporte says , " Tell Mr. Wilmot that he spelled terrible wrong . " These summer people , poor Misty , she tells them , Mr. Wilmot wasn't himself for the last year or so . He had a brain tumor he didn't know about for - we don't ...
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... Angel Delaporte , his face pressed to the hole , he reads , " ... I love my wife and I love my kid ... " He reads , “ ... I won't see my family pushed down and down the ladder by you low - life parasites ... " He leans into the wall ...
... Angel Delaporte , his face pressed to the hole , he reads , " ... I love my wife and I love my kid ... " He reads , “ ... I won't see my family pushed down and down the ladder by you low - life parasites ... " He leans into the wall ...
Contents
Section 15 | 145 |
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 167 |
Section 18 | 172 |
Section 19 | 175 |
Section 20 | 180 |
Section 21 | 191 |
Section 22 | 195 |
Section 9 | 94 |
Section 10 | 100 |
Section 11 | 113 |
Section 12 | 120 |
Section 13 | 126 |
Section 14 | 132 |
Section 23 | 200 |
Section 24 | 218 |
Section 25 | 230 |
Section 26 | 234 |
Section 27 | 252 |
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Angel Delaporte Angel says arms art school artist beach blood brooch brush camera Carl Jung CHUCK PALAHNIUK color Constance Burton dark dead Dear sweet Detective Stilton diary dining room doctor door drink everything eyes face feel fingers floor front frontalis muscle fucking glass going Grace says Grace Wilmot Granmy graphology green hair hand Harrow Harrow Wilmot head hiss and burst holds hole husband inside junk jewelry looks Maura Kincaid Misty loved Misty says Misty tells Misty told Misty's mother mouth muscle ocean Ocean Alliance paint Paulette pencil perfect Peter Wilmot picture pill pink pulls record rhinestones shit shut sitting skin smell smiles Stendhal syndrome Stilton says summer sweater Tabbi says tape there's triangularis muscle Waldorf salad walking wall wallpaper watercolor Waytansea Hotel Waytansea Island Waytansea Point wearing wife window yellow
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Page 64 - He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.
Page 38 - With your kind of coma victims, all the muscles contract. The tendons cinch in tighter and tighter. Your knees pull up to the chest. Your arms fold in, close to your gut. Your feet, the calves contract until the toes point screaming straight down, painful to even look at.
Page 40 - Just so you know how bad you look, any person in a coma longer than two weeks, doctors call this a persistent vegetative state. Your face swells and turns red. Your teeth start to drop out.