Jim Norton

The Third Policeman

Featuring
Release date 2007

Tracklist

1
Chapter 1
4:40
4:40
2
After a few days...
5:01
5:01
3
A full year had not passed...
3:39
3:39
4
It was about this time, when i was nearly thirty...
5:39
5:39
5
I do not know exactly how or when...
5:09
5:09
6
On our way, I said to Divney...
5:40
5:40
7
Chapter 2
5:32
5:32
8
I cannot hope to describe what it was.
4:48
4:48
9
Forlornly, i looked and saw that this was true.
6:44
6:44
10
"No" is generally speaking a better answer than "Yes"...
5:45
5:45
11
'Where's the black box which was under the floor...?'
7:04
7:04
12
'And how does this enable you...?'
5:52
5:52
13
Chapter 3
5:15
5:15
14
Everything seemed almost too pleasant...
6:53
6:53
15
I walked on unperturbed...
6:29
6:29
16
'I am a robber' he said.
7:07
7:07
17
Chapter 4
5:01
5:01
18
Of my own journey to the police-barracks...
4:17
4:17
19
His back appearance was unusual.
6:24
6:24
20
'He's gone to America...'
6:21
6:21
21
'These Are Interesting Rules...'
4:46
4:46
22
Chapter 5
7:06
7:06
23
He put his little spear back on the shelf...
6:28
6:28
24
He went to the table...
5:17
5:17
25
All my senses were now strained so tensely...
4:21
4:21
26
Chapter 6
6:07
6:07
27
'What is your attitude to the high saddle?'
7:17
7:17
28
I said nothing...
6:07
6:07
29
I looked carefully around me.
5:32
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30
'Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser...'
5:37
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31
Chapter 7
5:09
5:09
32
Standing at a point on the postulated spherical earth...
5:10
5:10
33
To say this was a surprise...
5:35
5:35
34
Both of us sat silent for a while...
5:15
5:15
35
The next important thing that happened...
6:30
6:30
36
How long this eeriness lasted...
5:53
5:53
37
What happened eventually was not a shout...
6:24
6:24
38
The door was flung open and in came Gilhaney.
5:20
5:20
39
Chapter 8
4:46
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As in many other of de Selby's concepts...
6:45
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These few words sickened me instantly with fear...
5:56
5:56
42
He led the way to a door...
6:06
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My eye ranged round unsatisfied.
6:16
6:16
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I went carefully over to see what he was doing...
5:07
5:07
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The sergeant was already looming ahead...
5:58
5:58
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MacCruiskeen lit a match for our cigarettes...
5:22
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And so we did.
6:58
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We smoked in silence...
5:09
5:09
49
As they wrangled on about sweets...
2:54
2:54
50
Chapter 9
4:57
4:57
51
Bassett and many of the other commentators...
4:09
4:09
52
For the rest, little remains save the record...
4:40
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Water, the word was in my ear...
3:31
3:31
54
Chapter 10
4:15
4:15
55
I was not at all pleased that this ghostly man...
4:29
4:29
56
I thought it was a poor subject for conversation...
6:44
6:44
57
'I heard a man once,' he said...
4:46
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Parts of this conversation came to me...
5:22
5:22
59
For the first time, i had the courage to turn my head...
5:21
5:21
60
Chapter 11
5:43
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61
Hatchjaw's friend, Harold Barge...
6:22
6:22
62
I arose and streched my legs up and down the floor.
7:02
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63
In the next moment, i was fumbling for the barrack latch...
6:30
6:30
64
I laid the bicycle gently against the gate pier...
5:13
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65
I stopped thinking, closing my mind...
5:21
5:21
66
I swung round in amazement...
5:21
5:21
67
The great fat body in the uniform...
5:13
5:13
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He had now carefully blotted his work...
6:00
6:00
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He chuckled softly at the thought...
8:02
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Chapter 12
4:38
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There was nothing altogether unnatural in what i saw...
5:19
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A cold biting wind was sweeping in...
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