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	The Third Policeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's second novel, written in 1939 and 1940 but not published until 1967, after the author's death.
		The unnamed narrator of The Third Policeman is a student of a scientist/philosopher named de Selby, and, as is revealed in the opening paragraph of the novel, has committed a robbery and a violent murder.
		Django Bates released an album entitled Music for the Third Policeman in 1990, which was voted one of the best albums of the year by The Guardian and by Q magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Third_Policeman (1140 words)

	The Third Policeman - The Lost Podcast Wiki
		Desmond appears to be reading The Third Policeman when the hatch is finally infiltrated by the mid-section survivors, at the start of season two.
		The Third Policeman is a novel by the Irish author Flann O' Brien (a pseudonym which Brian O'Nolan adopted for the all his published work).
		Policeman MacCruiskeen and his partner are obsessed with taking readings from their underground bunker, and assuring that these readings are within "safe" ranges.
	jayandjack.com /wiki/index.php?title=The_Third_Policeman (981 words)

	The Neglected Books Page » Blog Archive » The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
		The Third Policeman is a comic but sinister invention: on the one hand, a regional farce in which a criminal struggles with an entrenched rural bureaucracy, and, on the other, a mysterious allegory of universal pitfalls.
		The Third Policeman, written in Ireland in 1940 and published here a year after the author’s death, is both sui generis and the product of a literary convention.
		In The Third Policeman, the consequence is a narrator transported from his own familiar but deeply strange world into a parallel one that is strange but deeply familiar.
	neglectedbooks.com /?p=37 (2026 words)

	The Third Policeman - Lostpedia
		According to a BBC report and an article in the Chicago Tribune on Sept 21 of last year, The Third Policeman was to contain key insights into the show, a fact that led to it selling more copies in the 3 weeks following the episode's airing than in the 6 years that preceded this.
		The third policeman, as seen when Desmond is fleeing the hatch.
		Third Policeman, The • Turn of the Screw, The • Watership Down • Wizard of Oz, The • Wrinkle in Time, A
	lostpedia.com /wiki/The_Third_Policeman (1001 words)

	elimae
		The cellular sentence from The Third Policeman might seem less consequential, being spoken by the narrator as opposed to something from his narration.
		Just as we know in The Third Policeman's narrative, from the first sentence, and especially after the narrator puts his hands under the floor looking for the fl box of money, something is very wrong.
		Only, the elusive third policeman is finally met and the narrator must find out he himself has in fact died and gone to a quite improbable hell.
	www.elimae.com /essays/castle/Cellular.html (1398 words)

	hellshaw.com - flann o'brien/myles na gcopaleen - The Third Policeman
		'Policeman MacCruiskeen put the lamp on the table, shook hands with me and gave me the time of day with great gravity.
		Policeman MacCruiskeen smiled at the mention of food and went into the back room loosening his belt as he went; after a moment we heard the sounds of coarse slobbering as if he was eating porridge without the assistance of spoon or hand.
		I was determined to say as little as possible and these unusual policeman first show their hand.
	www.hellshaw.com /flann/faramur.html (554 words)

	NPR : The Funniest, and Scariest, Book Ever Written
		The Third Policeman, originally published in 1944, is the singularly strange crowning work in the fiction of the great Irish humorist Flann O'Brien.
		So in the introduction to my reprint edition, Denis Donoghue argues that The Third Policeman isn't a novel at all, but something he calls (after the critic Northrop Frye) a "Menippean satire," mainly concerned with lampooning broad character types like the mad philosopher de Selby.
		I first discovered The Third Policeman when someone -- I don't remember who -- recommended it to me, claiming it was the funniest book ever written, bar none.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5684946 (2542 words)

	The Third Policeman, Constant Reader Discussion
		A comic trip through hell in Ireland, as told by a murderer, The Third Policeman is another inspired bit of confusing and comic lunacy from the warped imagination and lovably demented pen of Flann O'Brien, author of At Swim-Two-Birds.
		The Third Policeman is short, so I hope all of you give it a go.
		I loved the bit about getting a "lift" back, and the one policeman's view that it was very convenient since his beard didn't grow while he was there.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/thirdpoliceman.htm (703 words)

	bookish » The Third Policeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I finally finished reading the novel The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brian, a pseudonym for Brian O’Nolan.
		Well…) The Third Policeman has extensive references to and pages and pages of footnotes about a scientist and philosopher by the name of De Selby.
		Reading The Third Policeman was not singularly enjoyable all the way through, but towards the end the style, pace and general chaos of it started to come together and make sense, and I do actually think that it proved worth the time I spent on it.
	www.bookish.dk /index.php?p=442 (495 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Third Policeman (Paladin Books): Books: Flann O'Brien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Third Policeman is in my view the best book ever written, but then again, we're all individuals and others will doubtless think otherwise.
		The Third Policeman is a remarkable book by any standards, even if (like me, hem hem) you fail to grasp the ending until you read the publisher's footnote afterwards.
		So in some ways The Third Policeman is just a framework for O'Brien to hang lots of silly ideas on, and as novels go it's not distinguished by a strong urge to discover what happens next.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Third-Policeman-Paladin-Books/dp/0586087494 (2100 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Lost boosts interest in The Third Policeman
		American television series 'Lost' has sparked a new interest in surreal masterpiece 'The Third Policeman' by Irish writer Flann O'Brien.
		The book is due to be featured in the third episode of the second series, which airs on RTÉ 2 tonight.
		Although the cover only appears on screen for a second, the exposure was enough to sell 10,000 copies of the book in two days after the episode was aired in the US last October.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2006/0220/lost.html (200 words)

	Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
		All quotations from The Third Policeman are taken from the 1993 Flamingo Modern Classic edition.
		In this essay I intend to examine Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman in the context of the time of its writing, 1940, its relation to certain English novelistic traditions and also the broader Irish literary tradition in which it belongs.
		A certain narrative coincidence with Dickens's Great Expectations may be noted in the opening pages of The Third Policeman although a post-modernistic prolepsis precedes the formal biographical preamble in a clear opposition of narrative styles.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/ireland/obrien.htm (837 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Lost revives Irish novel interest
		The Third Policeman was published in 1967, a year after the author Flann O'Brien died.
		The Third Policeman is a bizarre, comic novel which details a murder mystery.
		The book featured for just a second in an episode of the second series of Lost, which has just been screened in Ireland and is still showing in the US but has yet to be shown in the UK.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4746918.stm (348 words)

	xymphora: The Third Policeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Both of the people who found the body and one policeman clearly state there were three people.
		But who was the third policeman (as a big aside, "The Third Policeman" is an excellent novel, better, in my opinion, than "At Swim-Two-Birds")?
		Was the third policeman the 'director' of the little play that involved getting Kelly's lifeless body to a place in the woods where it would be discovered?
	xymphora.blogspot.com /2003/10/third-policeman.html (1447 words)

	Search Results 'policeman' » Netscape.com
		A gay 39-year-old policeman who claimed his force discriminated against him by banning his ear stud has settled the case with his bosses.
		case, it's a policeman who was injured in a shoot-out, thankfully not...
		The unnamed narrator of The Third Policeman is a student of a scientist/philosopher
	www.netscape.com /search?s=policeman (542 words)

	Myron Edwards - The Third Policeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"The Third Policeman" is an orchestral work in progress, based on the novel of the same name by Flann O'Brien.
		The ultimate intention is that this collection will form a ballet suite, and I hope to find a choreographer and dancers daft enough to take it on - though this is unlikely to be for a year or two.
		Watch this space for news of the development of the piece, and more sound samples in the near future.
	freespace.virgin.net /myron.edwards/pc3.htm (118 words)

	Special Circumstances: The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
		In shape it is circular and by nature it is interminable, repetitive and very nearly unbearable.
		The Third Policeman invites comparisions with the work of Lewis Carroll, Borges, Stanislaw Lem, Richard Brautigan and Jonathan Swift but it is important to consider that `Flann O'Brien' (a pseudonym for Brian O'Nolan) had finished this book in 1940, but didn't find a publisher until 1967.
		Although sometimes annotations are a liability, as is the case with versions of "Gulliver's Travels" annotated with copius amounts of historical details.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000085.html (609 words)

	Center for Book Culture: News: Hit Television Show to Feature The Third Policeman
		SEPTEMBER 2005—The Emmy-award winning television show Lost will, in the October 5th episode, feature Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman in a way that will purportedly provide key insight into the show's omnipresent mystery and uncertainty.
		Craig Wright, a Lost scriptwriter and producer, said in the Chicago Tribune article that "The Third Policeman will be prominently featured in a key moment" of this season's third episode.
		In fact, The Third Policeman was unpublished during the author's lifetime and, after being discovered in a desk drawer, went into and out-of-print in the years after his death.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /pages/news/news_lost.html (441 words)

	Collin Vs. Blog: A clue?
		Third Policeman is one of his best books, unappreciated at the time he wrote it, and probably doesn't cross the radar even of most literature students.
		At this moment, 9:26pm of 5 Oct 2005, there are exactly zero results on Google for "The Dharma Initiative." That's going to change starting in...
		In tonight’s Lost episode, Orientation, two books are not-so-prominently featured within the hatch: The Turn of the Screw and The Third Policeman.
	collinvsblog.net /archives/2005/10/a_clue.html (466 words)

	Coyote Mercury » Film, TV & Video
		We are, of course proceeding on the assumption that the books referenced and shown are included because of the way they interact with the showâs themes and not just because any given book was what the propmaster had on the truck when an actor needed something to do with his hands.
		The Third Policeman is seen when Desmond is packing before fleeing the underground bunker in “Orientation.”; Craig Wright, who co-wrote the episode, told the Chicago Tribune that, “Whoever goes out and buys the book will have a lot more ammunition in their back pocket as they theorize about the show.
		The otherÂ connection is the hatch.Â The Third Policeman appears in the episode “Orientation“Â in which the characters learn about the hatch and the need to enter the numbers or Bad Things will happen.
	coyotemercury.com /blog1/category/movies/page/2 (6046 words)

	disinformation \| flann o'brien: comic genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Arguably his best work, it is a murder thriller, a vision of eternity, a visit to hellish rural police station, and the tale of 'a brief, tender, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle'.
		It's a world where the policeman spend their time stealing bicycles, to limit the amount of atomic transference between humans and their modes of transport.
		A stunning excerpt from 'The Third Policeman' concerning the bicycles of the locality, his grandfather, and the grandfather's horse.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id317/pg1/index.html (859 words)

	Theory - The Third Policeman - Page 6 - The Fuselage
		Although in TTP ONolan does give us the pervading feeling that whatever we might assume about a character its tinged with the worst possible scenario.
		The Two Policeman, with their serious attention to the "readings" in their underground Eternity, and their constant monitoring, can't help but remind me of Desmond and the Losties monitoring the computer and responding to the alarm.
		The third element of the Trinity is the Holy Ghost, which may be analogous to the elusive Third Policeman in a comic sort of way.
	www.thefuselage.com /Threaded/showthread.php?p=735511 (2444 words)

	USATODAY.com - Is 'Lost' a literal enigma? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In lost-tv.com's Literary Mysticism area, fans already are analyzing The Third Policeman.
		A clue such as Policeman is "offered a bit tongue-in-cheek," she says.
		In The Third Policeman, the narrator is a man who assists in a money-motivated killing.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2005-10-04-lost-literature_x.htm (489 words)

	Flann O'Brien
		O'Brien's literary masterpieces are At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman - neither of which had any success in his lifetime but which are now translated into many languages and are read and studied across the globe.
		Language is a social, not a spiritual medium and therefore is always suspect unless used subversively.
		The Third Policeman, an absurdist parable of an impossible hell and a parody of the murder story, is narrated by a man who is already dead.
	www.paul-hyde-author.com /obrien.html (511 words)

	Scriptorium - Flann O'Brien
		One of The Third Policeman’s many footnotes speculates that Kraus and du Garbandier, two of de Selby’s commentators, were one and the same person.
		In The Third Policeman the narrator says “Your talk is surely the handiwork of wisdom for not one word of it do I understand.” In An Béal Bocht the Dublin Irish enthusiasts mistake the grunting of a pig for beautiful melodious Irish simply because they cannot understand it.
		The rejection of The Third Policeman was a terrible blow to his literary career – though his drinking cannot have helped his development as a novelist, either.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/obrien.html (5017 words)

	Powell's Books - The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann Obrien
		The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.
		The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.
		O'Brien is the author of five novels including At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, and The Dalkey Archive and several volumes of essays and newspaper columns.
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-156478214x-0 (175 words)

	Theory - The Third Policeman - The Fuselage
		Theory - The Third Policeman - The Fuselage
		The main point I like to believe about The Third Policeman is that it indicates sometimes things are just weird.
		You cant refer to something (3rd policeman), refer back to something (like the book the third policeman) than say you dont know what the third policeman is about.
	www.thefuselage.com /Threaded/showthread.php?t=28931 (932 words)

	Third Policeman Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, The Third Policeman is what I saw in the bookstore when I went looking for something by O`Brien, and it wasn`t a bad choice.
		Finally they decide to hang him (for bicycle theft, I think), but he is rescued by the league of one-legged men (the narrator himself has but one leg).
		He returns to Mathers` house where he encounters the third policeman, and eventually is reunited with John Divney.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/thirdpol.htm (380 words)

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