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have heard nothing but good things about True Detective and this booklist looks darn interesting. Viewers and critics have been puzzling about the strange references to “Carcosa,” “the yellow king,” and “black stars,” as well as Cohle’s rambling depressing comments about the horror of existence and the aberration that is humanity. The former are direct references to a book called The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers that was a huge influence on writers like H. P. Lovecraft. The latter are not, as some critics have said, incoherent freshman dorm-room nonsense. Instead, Cohle’s comments are infused with a strain of existentialist philosophy that runs from Friedrich Nietzsche to E.M. Cioran to Thomas Ligotti.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:55:35 +0000

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