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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/

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.

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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

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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/

55.49 on Amazon
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I mean this book https://www.amazon.com/True-Detective-Philosophy-Darkness-Blackwell/dp/1119280788

https://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Murder-Nebraska/dp/0963215809

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In the dust of this planet
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Turns out it was Nebraska;

book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Franklin-Cover-up-Satanism-Nebraska/dp/0963215809

wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

bbc documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M


Also I have no idea as to the validity of any of the claims made about this case.

Odd, looked for it yesterday and couldn't find it, here it is on the UK site - http://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Detection-Gary-Shipley-ebook/dp/B00NCFICBY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410009396&sr=8-1&keywords=true+detection

https://www.amazon.com/Lights-YeeSite-Control-Wedding-Lighting/dp/B017OPQG2O

It's set to blue and what we did was we aimed it at a big ass white light fixture on the ceiling so it reflects around the room

City of sin by Daniel Blake.

Set in New Orleans post Katrina, tells the tale of a murder under the shadow of a voodoo cult.

Check it out

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0007384505

It's considered a 'hoax' only on the basis of the perjury charges of two of the victims - Alisha Owen and Paul A. Bonacci. There were other victims interviewed by investigators. Some recanted - but did so under pressure of perjury charges. They were victimized by the local authorities and the FBI. An investigator of the case (Gary Caradori) died in a plane crash - just after phoning his superiors that he had nearly completed his work.

Worthwhile reads:

Still Evil After All These Years - CounterPunch

Excerpt from some zine, 'The Beast At Work'


There's also 'The Franklin Cover-Up' by John Decamp (State Senator of Neb. at one time).

Senator Decamp has done interviews that are posted on YT and was part of a documentary on the case (that got pulled from circulation by the Discovery Channel) called Conspiracy of Silence.