Hawker’s Pot seeks to entertain, but only because he can no longer remember what he came here for in the first place.
Saturday, 16 April 2011
No Hoper, No Shopper
While you were boring all around you with your exhausting bonhomie, a terrible anomie has descended on Clive. It extends even to getting the shopping. In the grocery aisle, Leon asks him “Did you write down what we need?” “No,” he replies listlessly.
[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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