‘We’re all raised to think we’re so special,’ Peta scoffed, ‘that all our experiences are so important, so meaningful, so particular, so individual. But if you look at the work of the confidence trickster, the magician, the psychic – even the priest, for that matter – what they depend on – how they function – is to play on the universality of human experience, on how bland, how predictable, how homogenous we all really are…’
