a thrown weapon

I'd like to have the cylinders of my old car bored out.

Is it the case that someone identifies himself as an X every time he says that he is an X or acknowledges that he is an X? That might be literally or 'dictionarily' so.

Another is a recent version of his mute, fixtureless sinks, this one suggesting Huckleberry Finn filtered through Magritte: its backsplash morphs into a worn white fence, and a robin’s nest with three blue eggs sits in the basin.