Hawker’s Pot seeks to entertain, but only because he can no longer remember what he came here for in the first place.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
How I see it ...
Meanwhile Leon has got a job at the local opticians giving eye-tests. Here he insists on re-arranging the displays so that the glasses are all in one half of the shop. Every morning he checks on the stock as he likes to see the glasses’ half full. After all, he’s an optometrist.
[Hawker’s Pot] is the Gimbel’s man in Macy’s and the Macy’s man in Gimbel’s; he is the fashion spy and the foreigner at National Air Meets. [He] is a person who has a technical right to see the show but [whose] interest ... is from the wrong perspective, at once more lively and more bored than that of a thoroughly legitimate spectator. (Erving Goffman, 1959)
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