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No, apologies necessary. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I can't respond to the heart of your comment at the moment, but I did want to suggest that Nietzsche's eternal recurrence is diametrically opposed to the Buddhist conception of samsara and was formulated precisely against what Nietzsche regarded as Buddhism's life-denying asceticism. In the fragments compiled in Will to Power Nietzsche writes,

>Everything becomes and recurs eternally—escape is impossible!—Supposing we could judge value, what follows? The idea of recurrence as a selective principle, in the service of strength (and barbarism!!). Ripeness of man for this idea. [§.1059/p. 545; italics in the original]

Whatever else we might glean from this, it is clear that Nietzsche seeks an affirmation of life within recurrence. He writes, "Means of enduring [the idea of the eternal recurrence]: the revaluation of all values." I'm not sure how or whether it pertains, but elsewhere Nietzsche describes the idea of eternals recurrence as if it were the best available attempt at thinking pure becoming:

>That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to a world of being: —high point of the meditation. [§.617/p. 330; italics in the original]

I think it is important to keep this in mind whenever discussing his idea of eternal recurrence.

I discovered the line from Pale Fire in Remaking Modernity.

Seconding Gotham Central! Literally anything by Brubaker might be enjoyed by TD fans.

Another TD esque Book I just had the pleasure of finishing is Murder by Remote Control by Paul Kirchner and Janwillem van de Wetering. Kirchner has been a longtime backpages cartoonist for High Times and De Wetering is a Dutch mystery novelist.

The book reads like a lost season of TD in many ways. It’s like a psychedelic noir Buddhist detective story. Can’t recommend it enough. Here’s a few really awesome splash pages:

https://imgur.com/a/9CehXaW/

Great piece of art. I absolutely love everything related to weird fiction.
If you love Lovecraft and Chambers, be sure to check out [Arthur Machen]((www.amazon.com/White-People-Stories-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143105590/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408639500&sr=1-1&keywords=arthur+machen). He's considered to be the 'patriarch' of the genre. While his novels don't really deal with gods, they do tell the stories of hidden civilizations. Check it out

"Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen." -H.P. Lovecraft

Someone get Fukunaga a copy of La Grande Armee. I'm sure Kubrick read it. If you have any interest, even slightly, in Napoleon, then you must read it. It will start off fairly dry, but it's an absolute amazing piece of literature. You don't get any grandiose biographical stuff. It's pretty simple nuts and bolts the operation of his army. But after a fair amount into it, you really start to understand the man's genius.

more on the supernatural side. I enjoyed House BUT it was not unique at all (very derivative). So it's not going to suprise you much or interest your with its originality like True Detective did...

I'm not sure that it ever really existed (Monarch, that is). Quite frankly, the whole thing sounds pretty loony tunes to me.

MKUltra, on the other hand, was VERY real, and I'm convinced that it continued long past the 70's. Read The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John Marks - it's a mind-blower.

You might look up Brian Greene and superstring theory. That film fumbles around for metaphors for how to explain the M-Brane theory, but I think TD is actually a fantastic rumination on interdimensionality and the weird influence one dimension might have on another, using inter and intratextuality as well as the weird influence audiences have on characters and vice versa. Youtube has a million different videos about superstrings, but changing the idea of time into a flat circle is just changing the perspective of one dimension from the perspective of the next one "up."

Try Tomasula's Vas, for more on dimensional perspectives, or the book that influenced it, Flatland: An Opera in Many Dimensions. Try to imagine how a world might look to people who live in two dimensions. It seems linear and normal, and like a world they might experience as we experience ours, but then imagine us, looking down on flat creatures living in their flat space. That's the way fourth dimensional beings would regard us, according to Cohle.

I'm not seeing an argument here. You are correct that the "bad guys wearing yellow" is part of True Detectives Image System. You are also correct that Marty walking into his daughters room and seeing the dolls is a "fucking scene and part of the plot of this television show". I am not disputing either of these claims. The dolls are also part of the Image System and whose symbolism is incredibly simple, and in little way is as complex as this subreddit would make it out to be.

I'd like to point you in the direction of The Elements of Style. I think it would help you form your sentences and your arguements in a much more clear and concise way.

The novel it adapted was awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Angel-Novel-William-Hjortsberg/dp/1453271139

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFh71_ftxLE

https://play.google.com/music/listen#/album/Bwmyv73yjggut4ktoncdhvos5sa/Various+Artists/True+Detective+(Music+From+The+HBO+Series)

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also awesome cover from last season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojBnTom9aL4

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Good summary.

I'd add one more point, related to this quote. I've encountered this in another piece of fiction, and the author actually credited this in part to Metzinger's book called The Ego Tunnel. I'm guessing there's other works that touch on this too. Anyway, the gist is that the conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain—an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is "a virtual self in a virtual reality." But this isn't philosophy not informed by science; Metzinger draws on a whole lot of studies and experiments into human cognition. Worth checking out, although it's a big honking work.

As someone else mentioned, he was suspected of being an undercover federal agent of some kind. Very little of that actually made it into the show. Basically the only line I can actually remember in the show that alludes to this is when Cohle is being interviewed by the two black detectives and telling them about his time being undercover, and then asking to be put into homicide. He says something like, "That's where the fed rumors first came in" AKA, due to him just being planted into homicide in Louisiana seemingly from nowhere, he was suspicious (and his aloof demeanor didn't help I'm sure).

However, the evidence for this is in the screenplay for Episode 1. Look at page 23 of this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwPsOUEDLfXPUFFOYmZQaXNUMzg/edit

I'll copy and paste the most relevant part below. BTW this is Quesada

QUESADA

Rust. Do something. See if you can guess why the ASA wanted to meet you. Why are we talking?

Cohle looks between the two men, studying their expressions--

COHLE

In general I’m not trusted, because I moved in under the aegis of former Superintendent Willey, and at the behest of the DEA. Maybe you got word about Northshore. I don’t know. Half the guys think I haven’t earned the shield- which is bullshit, by the way. Check my record with robbery.

A beat, as the two bosses are impressed by the precision of his analysis. Rust seems vaguely angered--

COHLE (CONT’D)
Beyond that, the department’s concerned that I may have been inserted as part of an outside investigation. Into what, who knows? But given that the ASA is here, State Attorney Laughlin could be worried about something. So, if Willey’s out, and at three months I’m still here, it’s time to ask your questions.

QUESADA

See there, Len? I told you.

SALTER

Alright, then, detective. Given your considerable ability to ascertain a situation, let’s be frank. Why are you here?

COHLE

I want to work murders. That’s it. I had to get out of Louisiana. Special Agent Willis Bokum owed me a favor. More than one. I asked for something like this. This is what he offered.

So yeah, they suspected Cohle of being undercover, but it got cut from the show other than Cohle mentioning it once in the 2012 interviews and the rat comment you mention.

Whoo. I've watched S1 too much :D

Edit: Btw I really like your username

This looks about right! Nice suggestion!! http://www.amazon.com/The-Light-Darkness-Laird-Barron/dp/1935006142

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looks like there are 4 left.

You might check out Jim Thompson. His stuff is usually from the perspective of the bad guys though.

I highly recommend these collection of pulp stories:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Lizard-Book-Pulps/dp/0307280489/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394426391&sr=8-1&keywords=black+lizard

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Lizard-Stories-Vintage-Original/dp/0307455432/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394426391&sr=8-2&keywords=black+lizard

TONS of bang for your buck. You'll also see the origin of most of the tropes that true detective draws on.

This image and others from the original title sequence came from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Petrochemical-America-Richard-Misrach-Kate/dp/1597112771


source: https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/true-detective/

In the dust of this planet
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