When exactly do everyday fantasies go from ‘little white lies’ to a mental disorder? | Yvonne Roberts
by Yvonne Roberts from Science | The Guardian on (#66FPF)
Billy Liar's loose grasp on reality is common today but experts say it is less benign. That is, if you believe them
Billy Liar, created in the 1950s, is a fantasist; a teller of tall tales who lives much of his time in the imaginary world of Ambrosia.
He is engaged to two girls and fancies a third. He is desperate to get out of the dead-end town of Stradhoughton where he lives with his working-class family and where he has secreted 211 luxury" calendars under his bed that he should have posted nine months before, on behalf of his employers, Shadrack & Duxbury, funeral furnishers".
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