Pathological Liars Are Fun

A kid I knew in college once made the claim, in one lunch sitting mind you, that he cured cancer, ran a 4.1 time in the 40 yard dash (yup - faster than Deon Sanders), and almost died from a rogue Philly Cheese Steak attack. Crazy, right? Yet he wasn't the most outrageous liar that I had the pleasure of knowing. Another acquaintance of mine, in high school, used to fly a SPACE SHIP to school. He used to park it on top of the school building and climb down the wall. In case you were wondering, we couldn't see the spaceship because it had a cloaking device, and we couldn't see him on the roof of the building, or scaling the walls, because he had a specially designed suit that made him invisible until he got down. Did I mention that he was a hired assassin for the CIA, code named Wolverine? Obviously, we couldn't tell anyone, because he would have to kill us.

As a sane person, what do you even say to people like that? The answer is nothing. There's really nothing you can do or say. The reality that they exist in is so detached from the rest of the planet that you can only hope that they don't shoot up your school. On the other hand, they do provide you hours of entertainment. They never realize that no one believes a single word of what they say. The lie is so ingrained into their psyche that it becomes the truth, and why would anyone question the facts?

With that little introduction, let me introduce you to Aleksey Garber, who is clearly more insane than the man who cured cancer, and possibly even more ridiculous than good ol' Wolverine. Alesky, applied to Yale back in 2002/3, and fortunately for us, stayed with a writer for the Yale newspaper. Here's the article describing his pre-frosh visit. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.