“There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a
fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
I mean, if you’ve ever spoken to someone with two heads,
you know they know something you don’t. Most people
go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience.
Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed
their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”

– photographer Diane Arbus,
teaching a class on photography in 1970,
captured on audiotape by
Japanese photographer
Ikko Narahara.

Diane took her own life the following year.