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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaron Ryan von Münchhausen
Even before his death, Münchhausen's reputation as a storyteller was exaggerated by several writers, giving birth to a fully fictionalized literary character usually called simply Baron Munchausen. The (fictional) Baron's exploits, usually narrated by himself, focus on his impossible achievements as a hunter, warrior, and traveler, including rides on cannonballs and trips to the moon.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)but for being synonymous with liar not for being the "party intellectual"
jsr
(7,712 posts)Fabulous, actually.
malaise
(269,173 posts)Rec
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)You outdid yourself on that! Hysterical!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)they seem to be impressed enough with him.
but i think that he is out of his league on the national scene where his bluster and bravado are catching up with him.
he has been given much and earned little.
he knows he a charlatan and has done nothing worthy of respect so he lies to fill the gaps in his character.
the fact that his mendacity has fooled (some) others in the past feeds his need to feel better. so by lying he makes himself larger than life, the man he wants to be but isn't.
i suspect that his record "breaking physical feats" are a masque for some hidden inadequacies
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)hagiography.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)i'm sure ryan's auto-hagiography would sound much like the heroic st, patrick, the pagan slayer while a more honest telling would read more like munchausen's.
his penance for lying should be to live the life of a stylite for forty years. he might redeem himself that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylite