Talk:The Third Policeman

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Contents 1 Critical responses/interpretations 2 Lost 3 Reference in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 4 TLS 5 WikiProject class rating 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Lost s02e03 frame still.png 7 Fair use rationale for Image:3pol.jpg

[edit] Critical responses/interpretations

I mentioned briefly that the novel can be interpreted as a metafiction, though I didn't elaborate well on why this is so (the metafiction argument belongs to Keith Hopper, btw). I'm leaving this comment as a reminder to myself to work on it in the future. In general, it would be nice to see other critical responses or interpretations, since The Third Policeman is a fascinating pancake and a conundrum of great incontinence, a phenomenon of the first rarity. - Cobra libre 00:12, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Lost

Apparently a lot of people have been turned on to The Third Policeman by Lost. For me, it was the other way around. When I heard that one of my favourite books played a part in the TV series, I decided to check it out. Anyway, this forum post has a lot of information about the connections between the two. Cnwb 07:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen mentions the police barracks from The Third Policeman as an example of a paranormal phenomenon in Ireland.

Does anybody have a more specific reference for this? I can't say I remember it from my reading of the comic. --Ryano 11:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TLS

The original review in the Times Literary Supplement was by Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange (and others).

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lost s02e03 frame still.png

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