in fact , a consummate professional , such as himself , might even become so dutiful in his fulfillment of obligations to his audience , and in fact , so skilled at assuming the roles actuated by their fancy that the disfigured and corrupted version of bhakti which resulted could only come to supplant the original from which it was derivedthis is to say that the accordionist would come to doubt his own self-image in favor of that which was projected upon him by his patrons , much in the way a captive animal in a circus may forget his own primitive instincts in the misguided hope of placating his gawking throngs of spectators ( benefactors , as it were ) who were paying for the privilege to visit him .