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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.