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they're in hospital, or talking to a doctor. One patient, asked about his 
surgical
 
sear, explained that during the Second World War he surprised a teenage
 
girl who shot him three 
times in the head, killing him, only for surgery to bring
 
him back to life. The same patient, when asked about 
his family, described how
 
at various times they had died in his arms, or had been killed before his eyes.
 
Others tell yet more fantastical tales, about trips to the moon, fighting alongside Alexander in India or seeing 
Jesus on the Cross. Confabulators aren’t out to deceive. They engage in what Morris Moseovitch, a 
neuropsychologist, calls “honest lying". Uncertain and obscurely distressed by their uncertainty, they are 

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seized by a “compulsion to narrate": a deep-seated need to shape, order and explain what they do not 
understand. Chronic confabulators are often highly inventive at the verbal level, jamming together words in 
nonsensical but suggestive ways: one patient, when asked what happened to Queen Marie Antoinette of 
France, answered that she had been“ suicided" by her family. In a sense, these patients are like novelists, 
as described by Henry James: people on whom "nothing is wasted". Unlike writers, however, they have little 
or no control over their own material. 
 
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The wider significance of this condition is what it tells us about ourselves.
 
Evidently, there is a gushing 
river of verbal creativity in the normal human
 
mind, from which both artistic invention and lying are drawn. 
We are born
 
storytellers, spinning, narrative out of our experience and imagination,