Confabulist

I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile.

... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother.

He's bonded Monte Alban guide, a sidewalk Sophist, Palenque wizard, brother in arms and drink confabulist, Mixtec and Zapotec, globetrotting cosmologist with answers for everything in his bag of tricks: solving problems for men floating belly-up, for doubting warriors who now scratch their heads.

The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time.

Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist.

The confabulist loves the tools of her trade, the stream of words that is a river of stars flowing through the knowable universe, but words are only anthills and mountains, aspects from which the river is seen.

Why did he always come up with the most romantic and confabulist notions?

The speculative drawings of architects raise the possibility that all architectural drawings, rather than representing a future building, are confabulist pre-enactments—that is, they tell the story of a world that may be, that could be, that might or even ought to be; but is not, and will never be.