Word: mythomaniac
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...early tunes, and bringing bemused skepticism to Dylan's own tales of his arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick us up and we would do anything you wanted, as long as it paid"). Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan was a mythomaniac with a backhand regard for truth. Accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in 1963, he got fired up and tanked up and informed the assembled dignitaries, "Lee Oswald, I don't know exactly where--what he thought he was doing, but I got to admit honestly that...
...seemed like a sideshow, fatherhood an even stranger subplot. "No personal questions," he used to tell reporters, as if any creaturely detail would detract from the power of his cause. Even those closest to Arafat experienced him as a mystery, which was how he liked it. He was a mythomaniac, concealing, inflating and contradicting reality...
...condition vintage black roadster in the lobby of the Chrysler building--is a scene of auto-Oedipal aggression that will stay with me for a long time. Barney reminds you sometimes of a sinister voluptuary. (That's a compliment.) At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac. (That's not.) There are lustrous episodes all through his films, amid stretches of state-of-the-art art boredom and Surrealist touches that remind you that Surrealism can be the last refuge of scoundrels...