For 10 points, name this Irish author of The Third Policeman and At Swim-Two-Birds.
[NOTE to moderator: please read the second sentence fairly slowly, making sure to read out loud the words that appear inside the brackets.]One of this author's characters invents an apparatus for diluting water, and believes that night is caused by "black air" from volcanic eruptions. The narration of one novel by him is filled with the following typical construction: "Brinsley was at the window giving chuckles out. ["paragraph break"] Nature of Chuckles ["colon"]: Quiet, private, averted." An imprint of Norton that published the works of William Gass and William Gaddis is named after a novel by him. After trying to retrieve the cash box that he stole with John (*) Divney, one of his characters finds himself trapped in the company of the bicycle-obsessed policeman, MacCruisken and Pluck. In another work by this author of The Dalkey Archive, Anthony Lamont and John Furriskey are characters in a novel-within-a-novel who drug their creator and put him on trial. For 10 points, name this Irish author of The Third Policeman and At Swim-Two-Birds.
[NOTE to moderator: please read the second sentence fairly slowly, making sure to read out loud the words that appear inside the brackets.]One of this author's characters invents an apparatus for diluting water, and believes that night is caused by "black air" from volcanic eruptions.
Flann O'Brien [or Brian O'Nolan]