V-2nd. P. 31 "He walked; walked he sometimes thought, the aisles of a gigantic supermarket, his only function to want"

[Mark Kohut]

A bit too too much for the Benny we know so far, imho, whose only wants we've learned of involve, beer, sex, and fearful love. Rachel might carry this
sentence better, yes?
 
Anyway the trope was in the air like existentialism. Ginsberg's poem VERY famous (as poems go). And Norman? "nuff said.
 
 
Superman Comes to the Supermarket
In November 1960, Norman Mailer first tried his hand at a genre that would come to define his career. This is Mailer's debut into the world of political journalism, a sprawling classic examining John F. Kennedy.

PLUS: Esquire Uncovers Secrets of the Kennedys >>

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/superman-supermarket#ixzz0rzjpTgWJ 


"A Supermarket in California" is a poem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956. The poem describes a narrator's impressions as he walks through a supermarket in California where he finds Federico García Lorca and Walt Whitman among the patrons.[1] Whitman, who is also discussed in "Howl", is a character common in Ginsberg's poems, and is often referred to as Ginsberg's poetic model.[2]