The Priest also places a moral barrier between himself and his tale by establishing himself as an "unreliable narrator" capable of deception and irony.
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Unreliable narrator — In literature, film, theatre, and music, an unreliable narrator (a term coined by Wayne C. Booth in his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60 1824513,00.html Professor Wayne Booth Comment Times Online ] ] … Wikipedia
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