Whether he likes it or not, that pedigree makes Copeland godfather to the Fight Club franchise... and all the works it influenced as well. But far from a hipster himself, Copeland was a genuine craftsman of the English language.
"You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile all sadnesses go unpitied. And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees."
