As expected, some commenters agreed with my article/interview with Jon Padgett yesterday, and some disagreed. Some saw it as obvious that Nic Pizzolatto plagiarized Thomas Ligotti, others didn't. Well, when you compare phrase after phrase, it does seem obvious. But that's not what I want to talk about right now. What I found particularly interesting were…
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(Above: Video comparing lines from True Detective to phrases from the works of Thomas Ligotti.) Like many fans of weird fiction, I was overjoyed to discover HBO's True Detective. But as the season progressed, I became increasingly uneasy. It seemed to me that True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto was "borrowing" words and phrasing from other authors, especially Thomas Ligotti.…