True Detective plagiarized?

[Mark Thibodeau]

If anybody here wants an e-Reader version of Ligotti's "philosophical"
treatise (the one allegedly pilfered for TD), drop me a line and I'll
zip it over to you.

J

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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
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