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The Third Policeman

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The Third Policeman	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Third Policeman is a darkly comic novel by Irish author Flann O'Brien, best known for his earlier work At Swim-Two-Birds. Written between 1939 and 1940, it didn't receive publication until 1967, after the author's death.The story concerns an unnamed narrator and his tenant John Divney, both of whom are in dire need of funds (the narrator wishes to publish a commentary on the writings of a philosopher named de Selby; Divney wishes to get married). Divney proposes killing the local miser, Philip Mathers, and stealing his cash-box. However, while the narrator is in the process of retrieving the cash-box, he encounters the ghost of Mathers. Thus begins a series of surreal, disturbing and hilarious adventures as he attempts to recover the money.Notably, the novel is considered one of the very first postmodernist works, despite being written long before the movement began in earnest.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Some trope titles below are spoilers in themselves.
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The Third Policeman / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: "Eternity" is nothing but this. The tiny police station situated inside the walls of Philip Mathers's house probably qualifies as well. The first police station is an example of this too. When the narrator first sees it (and when he first sees it again later), it looks impossibly two-dimensional, like a roadside billboard; he has to get practically right in front of it to be able to tell that it's a real building. Not to mention the underground bunker the policemen refer to as Eternity. The narrator opens a door on one side of the room he's sitting in and sees the other side of the room.
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