O'BRIEN: The Third Policeman
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Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny,...
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the novel was featured in the 5 October 2005 episode of the hit television series Lost. The series' creators have said that anyone who has read the book “will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines” of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. “Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious” wrote one critic about the work of Flann O'Brien.
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CHAPTER 1 - 4:40
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After a few days… - 5:01
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A full year had not passed… - 3:39
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It was about this time, when I was nearly 30… - 5:39
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I do not know exactly how or when… - 5:09
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On our way, I said to Divney… - 5:40
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CHAPTER 2 - 5:32
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I cannot hope to describe what it was. - 4:48
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Forlornly, I looked and saw that this was true. - 6:44
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"No" is generally speaking a better answer than "Yes"… - 5:45
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Where's the black box which was under the floor…?' - 7:04
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And how does this enable you…?' - 5:52
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CHAPTER 3 - 5:15
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Everything seemed almost too pleasant… - 6:53
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I walked on unperturbed… - 6:29
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I am a robber,' he said. - 7:07
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CHAPTER 4 - 5:01
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Of my own journey to the police-barracks… - 4:17
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His back appearance was unusual. - 6:24
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He's gone to America…' - 6:21
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These are interesting rules…' - 4:46
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CHAPTER 5 - 7:06
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He put his little spear back on the shelf… - 6:28
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He went to the table… - 5:17
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All my senses were now strained so tensely… - 4:21
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CHAPTER 6 - 6:07
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What is your attitude to the high saddle?' - 7:17
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I said nothing… - 6:07
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I looked carefully around me. - 5:32
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Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser…' - 5:37
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CHAPTER 7 - 5:09
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Standing at a point on the postulated spherical earth… - 5:10
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To say this was a surprise… - 5:35
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Both of us sat silent for a while… - 5:15
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The next important thing that happened… - 6:30
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How long this eeriness lasted… - 5:53
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What happened eventually was not a shout… - 6:24
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The door was flung open and in came Gilhaney. - 5:20
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CHAPTER 8 - 4:46
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As in many other of de Selby's concepts… - 6:45
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These few words sickened me instantly with fear… - 5:56
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He led the way to a door… - 6:06
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My eye ranged round unsatisfied. - 6:16
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I went carefully over to see what he was doing… - 5:07
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The sergeant was already looming ahead… - 5:58
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MacCruiskeen lit a match for our cigarettes… - 5:22
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And so we did. - 6:58
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We smoked in silence… - 5:09
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As they wrangled on about sweets… - 2:54
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CHAPTER 9 - 4:57
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Bassett and many of the other commentators… - 4:09
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For the rest, little remains save the record… - 4:40
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Water? The word was in my ear… - 3:31
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CHAPTER 10 - 4:15
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I was not at all pleased that this ghostly man… - 4:29
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I thought it was a poor subject for conversation… - 6:44
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I heard of a man once,' he said… - 4:46
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Parts of this conversation came to me… - 5:22
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For the first time, I had the courage to turn my head… - 5:21
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CHAPTER 11 - 5:43
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Hatchjaw's friend, Harold Barge… - 6:22
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I arose, and stretched my legs up and down the floor. - 7:02
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In the next moment, I was fumbling for the barrack latch… - 6:30
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I laid the bicycle gently against the gate pier… - 5:13
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I stopped thinking, closing up my mind… - 5:21
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I swung round in amazement… - 5:21
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The great fat body in the uniform… - 5:13
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He had now carefully blotted his work… - 6:00
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He chuckled softly at the thought… - 8:02
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CHAPTER 12 - 4:38
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There was nothing altogether unnatural in what I saw… - 5:19
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A cold biting wind was sweeping in… - 5:41