"a legend in one's own mind"

[Jonathan Lighter]

This has been around for a while, though I doubt very much having heard it earlier than this :

  1987 Daniel R. Schwarz _Reading Joyce's_ Ulysses (N.Y.: St. Martin's) 147: Stephen is to date more a legend in his own mind than a legend among his own kind.

  IMDb includes a film titled _E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind" (dir. Robert Hegyes) from 1984. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302517/]

  Based, of course, on "a legend in one's own time."

  JL


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