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Rust Cohle
True Detective's pessimist-philosopher, and his flat circle of time.
Rustin "Rust" Cohle — the detective at the center of True Detective season one (HBO, 2014), written by Nic Pizzolatto and played by Matthew McConaughey. His pessimism is the show's philosophical spine.
The flat circle, from The Secret Fate of All Life (S1E5):
This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again — and that little boy and that little girl, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again, forever.
The first of his lines gathered here; more to come.