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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Influences?

I began reading the book this morning and... it's a bit verbose for me. I'm very curious as to what works Ligotti may have picked his ideas up from in hopes that they may be easier to digest.
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I’d advise patience. Ligotti isn’t an academic philosopher, but he is a fine prose stylist. 

He also highlights a number of different philosophers and philosophical works in the footnotes as you proceed through the book’s pages. The most important source for him is a relatively obscure essay called “The Last Messiah” by Peter Wessel Zapffe, a pessimistic Norwegian philosopher. You can find a copy of that essay online.