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Castaway
1 appearance
Clairvoyant and television personality who reads clients' futures without apparatus, specializing in personal and financial advice.
On the island
Eight records
I think a lot of people are misled to think that I am as happy as I appear to be. And this particular piece conveys, eh, a, a certain sadness.
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:48What are the usual problems that people bring to you?
How... Finan... Wanted to change their work? Of course, sometimes love affairs, you know.
Presenter asks
0:59Do you have more women clients than men?
No, I would say I did have an equal amount. Now I have more men than women.
Presenter asks
1:25If you receive an impression that something very unfortunate is going to happen to a client, do you warn him of this?
I will tell them everything that is bad except death. Because you don't tell a person they're gonna die, you push them into their coffin [too] fast that way, you know? The reason I tell them everything else that's bad is because nothing happens to you in life that is so bad... that a compensation will not eventually follow. And you could have ten years bad luck when the eleventh year is a wonderful year. So I say to them, you know, this is going to happen to you, but please do not worry, because that is going to follow. Now they are so busy getting to the good that they will accept...
The book
Erving Goffman
The luxury
Not recorded.
“I have always said the eyes are the mirrors of the self.”
“I would do all the talking. I would not even ask you a single question that meant a yes or a no, which you could say was a leading question.”
“I hope by the end of thirty minutes I would then say to you now if you wish to ask me questions you may, but I hope by that time to have answered all the problems you've got.”