MSN GROUP: Mystery's Lounge
SUBJECT: Field Report—Speed Closing
AUTHOR Tyler Durden
Okay, this just happened not even fifteen minutes ago, and I can't tell anyone
other than you guys about it.
I was pretty bored today, so I went to the Rideau Centre shopping mall in
Ottawa, hoping to meet some new HBs to hang with tonight because my AFC
friends were all with their girlfriends.
I cruised the mall, and I couldn't find any HB higher than a 7.5, so I was
pretty pissed.
I was about to leave when I saw this new Booster Juice place with a cute
little redhead working there—about a 7.5 like every other damned Rideau
Centre chick.
I ordered a juice, and here's what happened:
TD: Which mango is better: mango hurricane or mango breeze?
HB: Mango hurricane.
TD: Awesome. I'll have the breeze.
HB: Ha ha, okay. Which booster do you want?
TD: What are boosters?
HB: Those things on the sign on the wall.
TD: Ooh, so I can get like vitamins and energy and shit in it. Awesome! I'll
be like a new man after I drink this. This is the shit!
HB: Ha ha.
TD: High-five!
HB: Okay! (She high-fives me.) Wow! That was like the coolest thing that's
happened to me all day.
TD: Pretty bored, huh?
HB: Yeah, it sucks here.
TD: Hmm, well, guess what?
HB: What?
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TD: I love you.
HB: Ha ha. Urn, okay. I love you too.
TD: Awesome! We're going to get married. Wow, you can really find love
in the strangest of places, like right here at the Booster Juice.
HB: Ha ha.
TD: Wait a sec. I know, close your eyes.
HB: Why?
TD: Just do it.
HB: Are you gonna steal my cash register or something?
TD: No, nothing like that. I swear. Remember, I love you.
HB: Okay, (closes eyes)
The counter was pretty wide. I leaned way over, so that I was Superman-
style horizontal over the top, and kissed her.
As soon as I kissed her, she started screaming like fucking crazy.
HB: Aaaaaaaahhhh! Aaaaaaaahhhh!
All these people started looking over at me. She was freaking out,
screaming her head off like a banshee, flailing her arms around and shit.
I was thinking, "Fuck, fuck, fuck. I knew this shit would backfire someday.
Fuck. I should have waited for more lOls or something. Fuck I thought I had
the lOls! I'm never doing this ever again!"
TD: Urn, I said I loved you first.
HB: Aaaaaaaahhhh! Aaaaaaaahhhh!
TD: Urn, are you okay?
HB: Aaaaaaaahhhh!
TD: Uh-oh.
HB: Urn, okay. That will be five dollars and thirty-one cents. Aaaaaaaahhhh!
She was trying to regain her composure by talking, but she kept screaming
intermittently.
TD: Please calm down.
HB: Urn, yeah. I'm okay. What's your name?
TD: Please don't call the police on me.
HB: No, no. It's just for the computer. I ask everyone.
TD: Okay. It's Tyler.
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HB: Wow, that's an awesome name.
TD: Urn, thanks. What's your name?
HB: Lauren.
TD: I like that.
HB: Oh my God, that was the most awesome thing that's ever happened
to me in my entire life!
TD: Cool!
HB: Oh my God, you rock. Oh my God, I love you! That was fucking
awesome!
TD: Glad to be of service. I promise I'll come back. I'll make you close
your eyes again.
HB: Will you do more next time? [winks, implying sex, I suppose)
TD: I won't let you down. You know I love you.
HB: I'm looking forward to it.
TD: Wow, it looks so cool back there. Give me the backstage tour.
HB: Okay, c'mon back.
I was thinking, "Holy shit, I can't believe this!" I felt inside my jacket pockets,
and I still had these two LifeStyles Tuxedo Black condoms that Orion had given
me last weekend, so I could go for it if I wanted to.
Then I totally chickened out. I was like, "I can't handle this shit! I met this
girl not even two minutes ago!"
There were literally fifty people all staring at me, watching the chick open
the door for me to come back there with her. They were all looking like, "What
the fuck is going on?" And it was making me really uncomfortable. With
hindsight now, I would have done it. But at the time, I was so taken by surprise.
So I said:
TD: Urn, actually I'm in a major rush.
HB: Will I see you again?
TD: Well, I'm leaving town tomorrow.
HB: Okay, what about after work?
TD: Urn, I have to go hang out with my friends. I'll come back tomorrow
and we'll go out then.
HB: Okay. Oh my God, that rocked! Wow!
Then I turned around and walked off.
—TD
Mystery was back.
No. 9, his roommate, called and told me Mystery had been released
from the hospital and was staying with his family. He was expecting him
back at the apartment the following week, when Tyler Durden would be
driving in to take a one-on-one workshop. It was probably too soon to be
teaching again, but Mystery needed to pay the rent—and Tyler was deter-
mined to meet him.
"I came out of this strange emotional journey with some incredible
cognitive models," Mystery told me a few days later.
His voice was Anthony Robbins clear again, his mind lucid. Life ap-
peared to matter once more. However, something seemed different. He was
in manic mode—more so than ever—but it was a new type of manic mode.
He hadn't exactly returned; he had transformed.
"I have my life goals set," he continued. "The motivational carrots are
all dangling properly in front of me. This year, I will build the foundation to
take down Copperfield. I've decided to beat him. I am a superstar. My brain
pupated into a butterfly."
I asked him if he was on any medication. He said he wasn't.
"I've given it a great deal of thought," he went on. "I only get depressed
when I isolate myself. Look at what got me there: the pair-bond break with
Patricia, new hotties staling and blurring,
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no career momentum, and being
alone in the apartment with no one to talk to. So we need to design a social
environment with people to motivate me—something like Sweater's place in
Australia. We can all motivate each other. While I was at the hospital, I took
a lot of notes on this idea. I showed them to my psychiatrist. Even he was im-
pressed. I'm calling it Project Hollywood."
That moment was the first time I heard the phrase Project Hollywood.
I didn't think much about it at the time. I figured it would end up like Pro-
ject Bliss: another stillborn scheme consigned to the trashcan of mental
masturbation.
Staling and blurring occur when a woman stops returning phone calls. See glossary.
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"I shine," he went on. "I see this now. I'm a superstar, just like I'm tall.
I'm simply a superstar who's been holding himself back. And I'd like you to
come be a star with me."
It was good to have Mystery back. Flawed though he was, he had a cer-
tain charm. Some would call it narcissism, and they wouldn't be wrong, but
at least he saw greatness reflected not just in the mirror but also in the po-
tential of those around him. That's what had made him such an influential
teacher.
"Dude, I'm already a star, at least in the community," I told him.
"While you were gone, I was voted number one pickup artist—above even
you. It's insane. A guy from England I've never even met before called the
other day and said he pretends to be me when he's fucking girls. It makes
him feel more powerful. What do you think of that?"
It was getting harder to live up to my name. One of our former stu-
dents, Supastar, a ruggedly handsome teacher from South Carolina, had re-
cently posted, "When I die and go to pickup heaven, Style will be there
waiting for me because he is a pickup god."
Mystery laughed when he heard it. "That's something you're going to
have to come to grips with," he said. "You've created an alter ego that you
Mystery wanted to book me for three months straight. He planned to
schedule workshops in London, Amsterdam, Toronto, Montreal, Vancou-
ver, Austin, Los Angeles, Boston, San Diego, and Rio.
But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.
There was something I used to do before I was a full-time pickup artist—or,
as the kids now called me, an mPUA (master pickup artist). It was called
writing. Somewhere, in another life, I used to wake up in the morning, sit at
a desk before even eating or showering, and stew in my own filth as I sat typ-
ing on a computer and not getting laid.
Now that I was mastering this whole girl thing, I needed to put the
other pieces of my life back in balance. All the sarging was starting to
scramble my brain. I was becoming too dependent on female attention, al-
lowing it to be my sole reason for leaving the house besides food. In the pro-
cess of dehumanizing the opposite sex, I had also been dehumanizing
myself.
So I told Mystery that I was going to cut back on the whole sarging
thing. I was currently seeing eight girls in L.A. My dance card was full. There
was Nadia and Maya and Mika and Hea and Carrie and Hillary and Susanna
and Jill. They had needs, and there were no strings attached. They knew I was
seeing other women. And they were probably seeing other guys. I didn't
know, didn't care, and didn't ask. All that mattered was that when I called
them, they came. And when they called me, I came. Everybody came.
What I didn't tell Mystery was that I didn't trust him anymore. I wasn't
going to set aside time and buy plane tickets only to have him break down
on me again. I wasn't a babysitter. Trust, I always told women, is something
you must earn. And he would have to earn my trust again.
It didn't take Mystery long to find two willing and enthusiastic wings
to replace me: Tyler Durden and Papa. I wasn't surprised. Since Mystery
had gotten out of the hospital, the pair was constantly in Toronto, staying
at his apartment and vacuuming every shred of pickup information from
his brain.
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Mystery would call every day to fill me in on their progress.
He'd say, "I've humbled Tyler Durden with my game. He was an asshole
at first, but we've broken through that and he's allowed himself to be taken
under my wing as a proper student."
He'd say, "I've finally figured out the formula for getting rapport with a
woman. Are you ready?" Big pause. "Rapport equals trust plus comfort!"
He'd say, "When you meet Tyler Durden, don't expect to like him. Only
expect to tolerate him. He makes rationalizations constantly."
"Then why do you hang out with him?"
"He'll call and say he's coming for the weekend, and I just let him. He's
like a thorn in my side that gets me out of the house."
"So should I let him stay at my place when he comes to town with
Papa?"
"He's part of the PUA family. Just think of him as the annoying cousin
who farts a lot."
One week later, Papa and Tyler Durden were on my doorstep.
Papa actually looked somewhat cool. He wore a leather jacket, sun-
glasses pushed up on his forehead, and an expensive cotton dress shirt un-
tucked over jeans. Behind him was the palest non-albino human being I
had ever seen. A shock of orangey blond stuck straight up from his ovoid
head like a toy troll. His head was cocked upward; his smile seemed like a
plastic snap-on attachment, and his features were flattened as if pressed
back by an invisible stocking. Though he claimed online to be an avid
weight-lifter, his body and face were doughy. Technically, he was a small
person. He just had a certain genetic softness.
This was Tyler Durden. He reminded me of Heat Miser from The Year
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