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Name:Flann OBrien The Third Policeman

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This is an unabridged version, 92MB, running for almost 6.75 hours.

Encoded as 32kbps 22050Hz MP3 mono - radio quality

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In 1940, O'Brien submitted the manuscript for The Third Policeman to Longman's, the English publisher of his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, but they declined to publish: "We realize," read the rejection notice, "the author's ability but think that he should become less fantastic and in this new novel he is more so." Deeply discouraged, O'Brien made no further attempts at publication, and shelved the manuscript, claiming that it had been lost. He would later cannibalize elements of The Third Policeman for use in The Dalkey Archive, published in 1964. A year after O'Brien's death, it was finally published by Timothy O'Keeffe, the Irish-born publisher.

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By no means recently published, Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman will, nevertheless, be perpetually new. The literary equivalent of a Tesla invention, The Third Policeman is an astonishingly great book that is so intricate, so improbably effective, that one cannot tell, merely by looking, what makes it tick. The story is a strange dream-journey that at times is so substantial that the reader will find himself double-checking the thickness of the book itself, amazed that the whole thing fits in so slim a volume. If anything, the book presents a problem in that it leaves a reviewer with little to say, beyond a couple paragraphs of repetitive praise.

In The Third Policeman, our hero and narrator, a nameless young man with a wooden leg, assists in a money-motivated killing, and, after trying to retrieve the stashed goods some time later, passes into a strange otherness -- a place that superficially resembles the Irish countryside, but which casually disobeys the normal laws of How Things Work. He encounters a small building of impermanent and shifting geometry which turns out to be the local barracks -- it is here that he meets the policemen. The novel has that special quality -- the fantastic made believable, yet retaining its power to amaze -- that is the hallmark of authors like Borges, Kafka, or Barthelme. The events are alternately frightening, baffling, and hilarious, and are brought into three dimensions by perfect, musical prose.

Much of the book's humor comes from references to the fictional physicist "de Selby", a sort of anti-Newton whose completely absurd theories sound almost plausible in the framework of the novel's demonic logic. De Selby, noting that light takes a portion of time, however small, to reach its target, came upon the idea that if a network of mirrors were aligned properly a viewer could actually see into the past through a series of repeated reflections:

"What he states to have seen through his glass is astonishing. He claims to have noticed a growing youthfulness in the reflections of his face according as they receded, the most distant of them -- being the face of a beardless boy of twelve, and, to use his own words, 'a countenance of singular beauty and nobility'."

Among de Selby's other arguments are the existence of night as passing clouds of black, volcanically produced pollution; the idea that all names originate from descriptive, prehistoric grunts (and that by decoding this system of grunts, one could ascertain another's appearance merely by studying their name); the possibility that the Earth is not a sphere, but an ovoid; and the nature of sleep as a series of minor heart attacks (brought on by exposure to the black air).

But de Selby is merely a side story. The main of the book is devoted to the solution of our young hero's mystery, and to the further mystery of the bizarre policemen which populate the world he has wandered into. The policemen speak in an infectious, over-wrought dialogue that you'll have to take care not to pick up yourself. They invent devices that turn noise into electricity. They take gauge readings in a subterranean, industrial version of eternity. I don';t want to delve too far into this storyline, rather I urge you to discover it for yourself. You'll never ride a bicycle again.

The Third Policeman, although not O'Brien's most famous book, is one that must not be allowed to be forgotten. More images are painted in its 200 pages than in the massive Pulitzer contenders of today, more fantasy and dream than in a million pages of Tolkien or Rowling. Reading this book will actually improve your imagination, your speech, your intelligence. And you'll lose weight (provided you don't eat until you finish). Far fetched claims, I know, but they'll hold true within the strange laws of The Third Policeman, as sure as the Earth is sausage-shaped.

"Bookslut" review

Read by Jim Norton. Jim Norton (born January 4, 1938) is an Irish character actor who frequently plays clergymen, most notably Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.

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