September 06, 2002

The Third Policeman, Brian Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien)

Why is this not more famous? If nothing else, it should be a recognized stepping-stone for readers who find the leap from James Joyce's Dubliners to Ulysses too big.

Resting before me like a tame domestic pony, it seemed unduly small and low in relation to the Seargeant yet when I measured its height against myself I found it was bigger than any other bicycle that I knew.
So wrote clew in Fiction (20th c.).
And thus wrote others:
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