Chapter 9 and 10 Summary

As the lye on the back of the narrator's hand sears his skin, Tyler taunts and urges him to feel the pain. The narrator tries desperately to fall into his guided meditation to take his mind off the pain, but Tyler keeps pulling him back to reality. Tyler reminds him that the pain is human sacrifice and that someday the narrator will die. Tyler says the narrator is no good to him until he realizes his mortality. Tyler tells the narrator that by realizing that he too will die, he is one step closer to hitting rock bottom.

Tyler and the narrator are on a stopped elevator. Tyler unzips his pants and proceeds to urinate in the soup they are about to serve to some dignitaries. The narrator delights in the fact that they have turned into guerrilla terrorists of the...