<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Anyone who hasn't read Flann O' Brien / Brian O' Nolan / Myles, then do. Besides great, it's hysterical.<br><br>No dia 14/09/2014, às 14:17, Antonin Scriabin <<a href="mailto:kierkegaurdian@gmail.com">kierkegaurdian@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">I haven't read The Third Policeman, but have read At Swim-Two-Birds and can vouch for the fact that O'Brien is a genius. Lots of meta fictional hijinks. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 14, 2014 3:04 AM, "Auspex Rex" <<a href="mailto:auspexrex@icloud.com">auspexrex@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I’d never heard of Flann O’Brien or The Third Policeman, but reading the synopsis on wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman</a>) made me think again about The Land Across. Someone else pointed out the connection to The Third Man already: Grafton mentions Hotel Sacher. Lots of missing, presumed-dead, actually dead, ghost third persons… and TLA’s third border-guard who is sometimes invisible, sometimes not, and looks like the leader of the country, and also looks like Grafton’s father...<br>
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Anyone familiar with The Third Policeman and The Land Across have thoughts on how the former might help us interpret the latter?<br>
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-Jeff<br>
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On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Gwern Branwen <<a href="mailto:gwern@gwern.net">gwern@gwern.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> - <a href="http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/2014/08/lafferty-news-thats-right-news.html" target="_blank">http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.com/2014/08/lafferty-news-thats-right-news.html</a><br>
> - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-poised-for-comeback" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-poised-for-comeback</a><br>
> "RA Lafferty – the secret sci-fi genius more than ready for a<br>
> comeback: A reissue of the US science fiction writer RA Lafferty's<br>
> stories sold out rapidly this year, and his fans, including Neil<br>
> Gaiman, hope to see his novels reprinted"<br>
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>> There's something of the Irish comic tradition in there, the<br>
> absurdity and surreality of Flann O'Brien, author of The Third<br>
> Policeman. "I agree," says the author Neil Gaiman.<br>
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