![]() ![]() It was reported that to that point, 40 people had fainted while listening to the readings. While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read to his audiences a short story titled “Guts”, a tale of accidents involving masturbation, which appears in his book Haunted. The phenomenon is covered in the Wikipedia article of the author: The essay had me hooked as it explained a phenomenon that happened at the readings of a certain short story by Chuck Palahniuk. This is why I write.įound this amazing Essay by the author of Fight Club. ![]() This is the advantage that books still have. These are the places that only books can go. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it’s difficult to call books a ‘mass medium’. A book takes time and effort to consume – something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. A book is as private and consensual as sex. But a book… A book is cheap to print and bind. Other forms of mass media cost too much to product to risk reaching only a limited audience. A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. ![]()
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