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Disillusionment Can Be Glamorous: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti

E.M. Angerhuber and Thomas Wagner (2001)

At the very end of the interview:

text to speech:  https://youtu.be/xZx2oES1SBE?t=1995

E.M. Angerhuber: If you had a wish to make for the future, what would you desire most?

Thomas Ligotti:  I don’t even have to think about this one.  Here’s my wish:  That every living thing, at the moment of its death, expires in a state of bliss.  All’s well that ends well.  Of course, this would upset the natural order of things, and people would be killing themselves left and right.  In order to insure the continuation of this funhouse of flesh that we call Life, it’s necessary that we fear the pain and grief of death and all costs struggle to avoid the inevitable.

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full interview (transcript) at The Nightmare Network