Chapter 1 and 2 Summary

Tyler Durden and the narrator are standing on top of the one hundred and ninety story Parker-Morris building on the edge of total destruction. Tyler is holding a gun in the narrator's mouth and pressing the barrel against the back of this throat.

Meanwhile, on the floors below them, members of the Mischief Committee of Project Mayhem are dismantling the corporate offices and throwing office furniture out the windows. The narrator recites all the ways to make explosives, and counts down the minutes until the building goes down in flames. In those last minutes, the narrator listens to Tyler recount how they will be part of history and that they will be famous.

As the minutes tick by, the narrator explains the anarchy, the gun, and the explosion are really about Marla Singer. Marla Singer is part of a triangle, and...