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[proximoception]

Caved further and read an interview with the writer. A very good sign: he's not a nihilist of any stripe but a self-described "beleaguered romantic." So Cohle presumably will be undermined - on some level. Thus there's more to try to figure out - and there really might be a nihilist element to the Yellow King business, explaining why Cohle was recognized as some kind of part of the dealers' world, a priest or demon.

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[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

must seek this out sometime (i am out of the the Cable loop ..)

(ha! sometimes i think .. all the best "nihilists" are beleaguered romantics! .. am reminded of some commentary by a self.described Old Catholic: Those who say they are a "traditionalist" are more or less post-postmodern iconoclast reactionaries. [ at last, someone "gets" - at least *this* aspect - of Foucault / see also: "Bored jazzbos pretending to rock" .. ascribed to either the Mothers of Invention or Steely Dan [ in the case of the latter, Donald Fagen would likely declare: "at last someone gets us !" ]).

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Presumably Foucault eschewed left and right positions for one out in front.

I don't know much about 20C nihilist lit. It's certainly true that the earlier ones emerge from romanticism: Schopenhauer, Leopardi, Dostoevsky when not all fucked up on Jesus, Nietzsche on Wednesdays. You can see how the despair strains in figures like Goethe, Emerson and Shelley might lead to that. Romantics in a permanently bad mood, one could perhaps call them.