Fieldwork among Veneto attractionist families (in engl. "show people") has provided a picture far from the myth of self-enclosed, homogeneous and/or marginal lives to the settled life of towns and has made me (and the readers of my texts) aware of all that I had taken for granted about such occupational culture. The conclusions of Italian anthropologist Leonardo Piasere reflecting on his fieldwork “immersions” among the Roma are relevant. He pointed out that, when studying “internal” minorities, the ethnographer’s distinction between a there (learning in the “field”) and a here (writing about what has been learned) did not hold. The ethnographer must learn to categorize his world anew, “because that is the world that Roma inhabit” (Piasere 1997:74). In the case of the Veneto travelling attractionists, I learned how they and settled people mutually categorize each other but I also became aware of the multiple worlds that are in my world in an unexpected way, by noticing how often fairs and circuses have inspired and challenged artists, and how certain characters of the travelling world have become powerful interpretive metaphors for both modern society and the role and function of artists.