The Third Policeman

By Flann O'Brien This comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence follows a narrator who, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the actual existence of eternity, and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." Dalkey Archive Press, 1967, softcover, 200 pages.