The Third Policeman

The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.'

‘A person’s colour,’ he answered slowly, ‘is the colour of the wind prevailing at his birth.’

‘What is your own colour?’

‘Light yellow.’

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.

DE SELBY

disappeared completely from all appearances

'It is nearly an insoluble pancake,' he smiled, 'a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.'

you would not credit the time a suit or a boots will last you and you don't have to take your clothes off either.

Down there you are as young coming out of a sleep as you are going into it

The sounds he put on these words were startling and too strange. Each word seemed to rest on a tiny cushion and was soft and far away from every other word.

Each word seemed to rest on a tiny cushion and was soft and far away from every other word.

in the nick of time