Quote #91834
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
Chuck Palahniuk
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The quote reads like a rapid-fire parody of desire as consumer choice: a speaker “orders” emotional and philosophical states the way one might demand images, thrills, or pornographic “flashes.” By stacking lust, malice, existential ennui, and “rampant intellectualism,” it suggests that even complex inner life can be reduced to interchangeable poses—performed, consumed, and discarded. The repeated “Flash” mimics both camera bursts and attention-span culture, implying that contemporary identity is assembled from momentary, sensational snapshots rather than sustained experience. The tone is satirical and accusatory: it exposes how cynicism and theory can become just another coping product, no more authentic than lust or cruelty.



