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Falling for enough cons is the mark of a casual connoisseur in books of confidence. One of my favorites is The Book of Swindles by Zhang Yingyu. How could one not read a book that inspires such a beautifully scandalous contra introduction?

This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder…

The first lesson against swindles is ‘obtaining passage through the state of Yu to attack the state of Guo’, which in faraway modern times translates to keeping the tin foil hats demarcated at a safe arm’s length of distance.

Village of Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy (© Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld/Getty Images)

Blue whale skeleton in the Natural History Museum, London, England (© Bailey-Cooper Photography/Alamy)

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‘Feelings are Facts,’ by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Ma Yansong, Beijing, China (© Feng Li/Getty Images News)