[Ads-l] "a legend in one's own mind"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Much earlier:

1966 _San Antonio Press/News_ (Nov. 12) 11-A [GenealogyBank]: He's a
showman, a living legend in his own mind.

1967 _Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advertiser_ (Honolulu) (Dec 24) TV 23
[Newspapers.com]:  [In the movie _The Comedians_] There is a jaunty "major"
who is a legend in his own mind.

1968 _Asbury Park _ [N.J.] _Sunday Press_ (Apr. 28) 50 [Ibid.]: Dickie
[Smothers] knows he's a star and he's a legend in his own mind.

1970 _Omaha World-Herald_ (Apr. 24) 8 [Genealogy Bank] : "A Legend in His
Own Mind" (UNI 73076), by vocalist Chares Lamont.

JL

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 3:09 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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