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Flann O’Brien: The Third Policeman (abridged)

Read by Jim Norton

It’s clever, funny and inventive – and as disturbing as one should expect from a writer who believed humour to be “the handmaid of sorrow and fear” More…

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Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Human existence being a hallucination…

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Four years passed away happily enough…

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Old Mathers lived alone.

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And that is why John Divney and I…

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I cannot hope to describe what it was…

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My mind went back at once to John Divney…

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'Every time my birthday came,' Old Mathers…

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Signor Beniamino Bari, Joe said…

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He then did something that took me by surprise.

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I cannot say why I did not stop to think…

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Police MacCruiskeen smiled…

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So much for de Selby.

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He walked back to the dresser…

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When I penetrated back to the dayroom…

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We were now going through a country…

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I looked carefully around me.

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The Sergeant then became thoughtful…

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'Well now,' the Sergeant said.

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MacCruiskeen was not gone for long…

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'And when I have a shout shut in that box…'

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Puzzled and frightened, I tried to understand…

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He drew the stick…

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It is peculiar that when one expects…

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The ease with which the Sergeant…

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I heard the Sergeant sighing heavily…

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A curious contretemps arose…

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When I awoke again…

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I looked at him with a mild enquiry.

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His words, now in the air and out of doors…

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MacCruiskeen gave a smile…

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Footnote 1: Le Fournier, the conservative…

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Too much credit cannot be given to Hatchjaw…

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I arose and stretched my legs…

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A thickening of the right hand…

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This is a brave night!' I swung round…

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'Before I go,' I said, 'There is one thing…'

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I could not help smiling at him…

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There was nothing altogether unnatural…

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My feet carried my nerveless body…

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