True Detective plagiarized?

[Charles Albert]

The debate about whether or not it qualifies as plagiarism is reasonable.
With respect to the other question, Pynchon without his sources would still
be prose of the very highest order, stripped of Ligotti, True Detective
would be Law & Order SVU with a drawl....


love,
cfa


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:31 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with the rebuttal - the 'plagiarism' charge fundamentally
> misunderstands the term. Otherwise Pynchon would be morally bound to
> publish his own a Companion Guide to each of his novels and the works
> they draw upon, and how awful would that be...
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Matthew Taylor
> <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And a (debatably successful?) rebuttal:
> >
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/06/true_detective_plagiarized_no_nic_pizzolatto_did_not_plagiarize_thomas_ligotti.html
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:33 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://lovecraftzine.com/2014/08/04/did-the-writer-of-true-detective-plagiarize-thomas-ligotti-and-others/
> >>
> >> Anyone here read Ligotti? This is the first I've ever heard of him, so
> >> it's hard for me to judge how "Ligottian" True Detecive is. I find the
> >> charges very believable, given how none of Cohle's dark worldview, or
> even
> >> the many references to the Yellow King ultimately had a shred of
> relevance
> >> to the final episode.
> >>
> >> Laura
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
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