Why I Still Love New York
Overheard on an East Village street yesterday:
Elderly Woman, pushing a cart piled high with groceries: “So Liz Taylor died.”
Elderly Man (Aging Hipster Type): “I thought she had already died.”
Woman: “No, they had it wrong that time. This time she died for real.”
Man: “You know what William Burroughs once said when he was asked whether he believed in the afterlife?”
Woman: “No. What did William Burroughs say about the afterlife?
Man: “‘How do you know you’re not dead already?'”
