When I heard McConaughey utter these lines in his spaced-out drawl,  it reminded me vividly of the philosophical writing of Thomas Ligotti (“Teatro Grottesco,” “My Work Is Not Yet Done”), a writer known throughout the literary horror world for his disturbing and blackly funny short works in the genre known as weird fiction. In his 2010 nonfiction work, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated “The Conspiracy Against the Human Race,” Ligotti calls consciousness “the parent of all horrors” and lays out an argument that would make Rustin Cohle offer a slow, stoned nod of approval.

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