He was sitting in an aisle seat, half asleep, when he sensed something float by.
The aisles and half of the balcony fill with 130 children from the Young People's Chorus of New York City.
To be sure, Godiva is still filling its gold boxes, M&Ms and Hershey bars still line supermarket checkout aisles, and half of Florida isn't trying to cultivate the tropic-loving cacao tree in the backyard.
But the flagship store in Dallas is essentially a vast warehouse of books, and getting lost in its aisles is half the fun".
Today the material crowds an aisle and a half of metal shelving in the basement of Houghton Library, Harvard University's rare book and manuscript repository that sits atop stone stairs in Harvard Yard, a short walk from Hollis Hall, the redbrick dormitory where Updike lived as a freshman 60 years ago.
He retreated a half aisle away to browse, whistling, through the stacks of candy bars.
The seats, all 14 of them, face into the aisle, isolated by half-height walls.
Or tickets on the aisle for a half-dozen plays on Broadway.
But when I walked down the auditorium aisle about a half-hour late, watching girls shout, stomp, and wave their hands about, I unknowingly stepped right into one group, rehearsing their response to a seven-minute task Eve had given everyone.
In this country, the boxes are popular in supermarkets and working-class liquor stores, which may devote half an aisle to them.
