User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/I am taking an online creative writing class taught by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk/@comment-26030957-20150905015234

Okay, introduced myself to Chuck and the class. First assignment was to find an example of a montage that showed the passage of time. Chuck demonstrated with a scene from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby where a series of parties is shown by names and dates on a railroad timetable and followed it up with a similar scene in Brett Easton Ellis' Glamorama (one of my favorite books and Chuck talked about discussing this scene with Brett). I chose a scene in Donna Tart's The Gold Finch (if you haven't read this book) where the protagonist was stuck in a hotel room and growing suicidal and the television shows and food he was eating became a montage of warped time and depression. He just commented on my submission by saying, "Excellent." :)