Chapter Summaries 2: Tunnel, Office, Health Club, Date

Tunnel opens with us learning where Patrick and his group of friends would prefer to spend an evening: at a nightclub doing coke. These men seem to be rather reckless, and don't care about the ramifications of their actions. We learn in the relatively short  next chapter that his secretary, Jean, is in love with him, and he thinks she's probably the girl he's going to marry. He then walks through his semi-daily routine of flipping through magazines, occasionally working, and working out at the health club, Xclusive, of which he's an avid member. In Health Club, he visits the gym and walks us through his workout routine, which I find a little excessive and unnecessary, but hey, if we're going to learn about the inner workings of this guy's mind, we might as well learn everything. The next chapter is where he plans on taking Patricia on a date to Dorisia, of which he in unable to make reservations for. He then talks about how he has all of a sudden decided that Patricia is safe tonight, and that he won't murder her like it's normal to murder one's date. I examine this a little more closely in my last post. He then takes her to another restaurant instead, where she hardly talks to him, and the night ends with both of them doing cocaine at the deserted nightclub Tunnel, which he seems to frequent.