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The Third Policeman
by

Flann O'Brien

Jon Nakapalau's review

Aug 26, 2016

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bookshelves: classics, fiction, crime

One of the strangest books I have ever read...a kind of 'satori hell' where you find yourself only after everything is lost. Very unusual - but there are passages that are beautiful. If you like The Twilight Zone and the works of Samuel Beckett you will probably like this book: once disbelief is suspended it becomes a tale that transcends classification that will have a profound impact on you.

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“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end of it had been encountered.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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“It has no size at all," the Sergeant explained, "because there is no difference anywhere in it and we have no conception of the extent of its unchanging coequality.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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