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Audio: Tragedy Is a Flat Circle

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

Sep 21, 2022

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In “True Detective,” the character Rust Cohle delivers a Nietzschean line about the absurdity of life’s cyclicity: “Time is a flat circle.” So too is tragedy, which cycles through the same carousel of horrors over and again.

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