“The same companies that spent decades telling lawmakers that they were explicitly not the guardians of the morality of the young – that they couldn’t be held accountable for sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, for gangsta rap, for drug-fuelled dance-parties – did a complete reversal and began to beat their chests about the corrupting influence of downloading on the poor kiddies.”

“Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it’s only action that can make a man.”

Goethe, Faust

To everything, a season.


  • (The subway doors open. A hobo enters, holding a bottle of Windex in one hand and a tube of toothpaste in the other.)
  • Hobo: Which is the better time to read Dostoyevsky? Winter?
  • (He sprays the Windex.)
  • Or Spring?
  • (He squeezes toothpaste out of the tube.)
  • Japanese girl: Spring!
  • Hobo: You are correct.
  • www.overheardinnewyork.com
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