The Third Policeman The Harvill Press the sole protector of a

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A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution

The Third Policeman The Harvill Press the sole protector of aThe Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just