Storytelling, it's a joke!!

As a story teller and a joke teller myself I can see, or at least make myself believe I can see, why it is that O'Brian speaks to the reader in the way he does. Just think to yourself about every time you've told a joke more than twice or every story you seem to find yourself telling over and over again, your go to story if you will. I do not know about most of you but in my case each time I tell my joke or story it is different. It contains different details or different scenarios, I'm not saying completely different because then it would be a different story but altered just enough to keep the crowd entertained. It also has to do with the fact that when one finds themselves consistently telling stories and jokes they can never remember the whole one precisely the same as the original. The main point of the whole joke or story is not the minor detail but the climax or punch line. The reader or listener takes the most from the punch line. O'Brian tells us these false stories in order to force us into believing what he wants us to believe; we see the story in the way that he wants us to see it. The only difference between the usual story teller and O'Brian is that O'Brian tells us when he is lying rather than just telling the story and letting the reader but what he/she wants to believe. In my opinion this fact strengthens the case for the idea that all O'Brian is truly looking to do with this novel is get across his final point, all he cares about is the punch line. In fact the reason this novel may be viewed as how to tell a story rather than a war story is because he does tell us that he is not telling us the truth. If he was attempting to make this a war story he would of let us believe the details he was giving us, I mean its already enough to know the novel is fictional, why does he need to keep reminding us? It is because he is not trying to get us to believe this is a war story, the war details he writes about would be in my opinion described as the details of a joke that always seem to change, he is trying to teach us how to tell a successful story. The only thing one should take from this novel is that anyone can be a storyteller it just takes a little truth and a lot of B.S.