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True Detective | 1x06 Haunted Houses

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“We know who to blame in True Detective precisely because the serial killer is always the same. In our popular depictions, he’s reiterated, just as he reiterates. Whatever his name or profession, he’s a white man, and his victims are usually women. (Hannibal, for what it’s worth, is an atypically equal-opportunity killer). His position of privilege makes his actions all the more opaque. His crimes are ceremonially sexual, enacted like rites. Each death duplicates the next. The serial killer’s career comprises a series without a sequence: He aspires not to succession but to stasis, so he settles for recurrence that mimics endurance. He selects women who look alike, creating the same tableau over and over, as if the experience never ceases and never started, but merely remains. His genre is pornography, which, as Susan Sontag once noted, is typically distinguished by its plotlessness. Porn “goes on and on and ends nowhere.”1 It does again what it did before. It starts and ends with the body, which is how we began—and the body initiates the next beginning, the next brutalization.”

— Becca Rothfeld, ‘Murder on the Installment Plan’

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true detective + every southern gothic novel ever

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925, American) ~ Study of a Seated Man, 1895

[Source: nga.gov]

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“The body is not one member, but many. Now are they many, but of one body."

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That’s the last thing I remember. I was on the ground, sirens. Saying my friend’s name.

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romance.......

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Rustin Cohle as CRASH Matthew McConaughey True Detective 1x04

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get in loser we’re living past the end of our myth

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I  like mowing my lawn.

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I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It’s corrosive, like acid. You got a demon, little man. There’s a shadow in you, son.

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Matthew McConaughey on set for Sea of Trees, 8/29/14 [x]