‘Now listen to me closely, I’ll endeavour to explain, What separates a Charlatan from a Charlemagne.’ – ‘Pippin’ (Broadway musical), Stephen Schwartz; the psychic powers of mental illusionists – magicians, mind readers, fortune tellers, puzzlers, mystics, ‘thieves of thoughts’ and ‘mitt readers’, evocatively billed as The Talking Tea Kettle, The Girl With The Thousand Eyes, Baby Yvonne - The World’s Youngest Mental Marvel, The Man With The Radar Mind, The Edison Of Magic, The Hypnotic Humorist …; inscribed to Barry Humphries by the author.
