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Author(s): O'Brien, Flann
Reader(s): Norton, Jim
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA645512
Barcode: 9789626344552
Release Date: 03/2007
O'BRIEN, F.: Third Policeman (The) (Unabridged)
Flann O’Brien’s most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased after the novel was featured in the 5 October 2005 episode of the hit television series Lost. The series’ creators have said that anyone who has read the book “will have a lot more ammunition when dissecting plotlines” of the show. Here it comes to life in a new unabridged recording. “Even with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake behind him, James Joyce might have been envious”, wrote one critic about the work of Flann O’Brien.
Tracklist
Disc 1
O'Brien, Flann - Author
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1 | CHAPTER 1 | 04:40 |
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2 | After a few days… | 05:01 |
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3 | A full year had not passed… | 03:39 |
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4 | It was about this time, when I was nearly 30… | 05:39 |
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5 | I do not know exactly how or when… | 05:09 |
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6 | On our way, I said to Divney… | 05:40 |
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7 | CHAPTER 2 | 05:32 |
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8 | I cannot hope to describe what it was. | 04:48 |
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9 | Forlornly, I looked and saw that this was true. | 06:44 |
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10 | "No" is generally speaking a better answer than "Yes"… | 05:45 |
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11 | Where's the black box which was under the floor…?' | 07:04 |
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12 | And how does this enable you…?' | 05:52 |
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Disc 2
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1 | CHAPTER 3 | 05:15 |
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2 | Everything seemed almost too pleasant… | 06:53 |
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3 | I walked on unperturbed… | 06:29 |
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4 | I am a robber,' he said. | 07:07 |
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5 | CHAPTER 4 | 05:01 |
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6 | Of my own journey to the police-barracks… | 04:17 |
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7 | His back appearance was unusual. | 06:24 |
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8 | He's gone to America…' | 06:21 |
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9 | These are interesting rules…' | 04:46 |
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10 | CHAPTER 5 | 07:06 |
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11 | He put his little spear back on the shelf… | 06:28 |
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12 | He went to the table… | 05:17 |
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13 | All my senses were now strained so tensely… | 04:21 |
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Disc 3
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1 | CHAPTER 6 | 06:07 |
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2 | What is your attitude to the high saddle?' | 07:17 |
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3 | I said nothing… | 06:07 |
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4 | I looked carefully around me. | 05:32 |
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5 | Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser…' | 05:37 |
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6 | CHAPTER 7 | 05:09 |
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7 | Standing at a point on the postulated spherical earth… | 05:10 |
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8 | To say this was a surprise… | 05:35 |
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9 | Both of us sat silent for a while… | 05:15 |
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10 | The next important thing that happened… | 06:30 |
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11 | How long this eeriness lasted… | 05:53 |
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12 | What happened eventually was not a shout… | 06:24 |
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13 | The door was flung open and in came Gilhaney. | 05:20 |
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Disc 4
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1 | CHAPTER 8 | 04:46 |
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2 | As in many other of de Selby's concepts… | 06:45 |
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3 | These few words sickened me instantly with fear… | 05:56 |
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4 | He led the way to a door… | 06:06 |
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5 | My eye ranged round unsatisfied. | 06:16 |
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6 | I went carefully over to see what he was doing… | 05:07 |
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7 | The sergeant was already looming ahead… | 05:58 |
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8 | MacCruiskeen lit a match for our cigarettes… | 05:22 |
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9 | And so we did. | 06:58 |
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10 | We smoked in silence… | 05:09 |
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11 | As they wrangled on about sweets… | 02:54 |
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12 | CHAPTER 9 | 04:57 |
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13 | Bassett and many of the other commentators… | 04:09 |
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Disc 5
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1 | For the rest, little remains save the record… | 04:40 |
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2 | Water? The word was in my ear… | 03:31 |
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3 | CHAPTER 10 | 04:15 |
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4 | I was not at all pleased that this ghostly man… | 04:29 |
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5 | I thought it was a poor subject for conversation… | 06:44 |
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6 | I heard of a man once,' he said… | 04:46 |
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7 | Parts of this conversation came to me… | 05:22 |
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8 | For the first time, I had the courage to turn my head… | 05:21 |
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9 | CHAPTER 11 | 05:43 |
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10 | Hatchjaw's friend, Harold Barge… | 06:22 |
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11 | I arose, and stretched my legs up and down the floor. | 07:02 |
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12 | In the next moment, I was fumbling for the barrack latch… | 06:30 |
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Disc 6
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1 | I laid the bicycle gently against the gate pier… | 05:13 |
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2 | I stopped thinking, closing up my mind… | 05:21 |
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3 | I swung round in amazement… | 05:21 |
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4 | The great fat body in the uniform… | 05:13 |
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5 | He had now carefully blotted his work… | 06:00 |
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6 | He chuckled softly at the thought… | 08:02 |
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7 | CHAPTER 12 | 04:38 |
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8 | There was nothing altogether unnatural in what I saw… | 05:19 |
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9 | A cold biting wind was sweeping in… | 05:41 |
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Total Playing Time: 06:43:10