Hawker’s Pot seeks to entertain, but only because he can no longer remember what he came here for in the first place.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Mavis Complains ...
That feller I was telling you about, yes, you know, him, well, his latest new “friend” is a female superhero. She’s strong enough to lift up a mountain, she can run as fast as a train and, to hear her talk, she can even fly through the air. Impossible woman.
[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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