The Third PolicemanBy 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.