"The funfair folk know better than anyone how it is to be an outsider in a world that would prefer they didn't exist. Each and every one of them - those born freaks and those freakish by inclination, those with freakishness thrust upon them, those with it in the blood - understands the acrobatic feat of being oneself while surviving in the opposite ecosystem. (...) Better freaks than them have perished under the weight."