Ligotti doesn't believe in a Self. So plagarism doesn't exist if you believe in Ligotti's philosophy. Therefore plagarism doesn't exist to Ligotti himself. Thus only people who are not Ligotti fans and are legalistic moral wranglers give a shit.

Postmodernism. Literary Pastiche. Polyphony.

If Rust Cohle was plagarizing Ligotti then Dostoyevsky must be the biggest plagarist in the world for ripping wholesale quotes from various German poets and implanting it into his own massive novel The Brothers Karamazov, as well as taking ideas on Christian Mysticism from Swedenborg and records on Elder Mystics. All…