<b><a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/007281.html">They're Not Going to Be One-Upped on the Surrealism</a></b><br/> Guy #1: You know that Anton Webern's <i>Quartet for the End of Time</i> was performed in a concentration camp? Crazy. <br/>Guy #2: Yeah. He died real weird. I forget how. I think the Nazis shot him.<br/>Total stranger: Actually he was shot by Allied soldiers. He was breaking curfew smoking a cigarette, and they mistook him for his brother-in-law, who was an alleged Nazi spy.<br/>Guy #1: Oh, I see. Thanks.<br/>Total stranger: Any other questions? I just ride this train all day waiting to answer questions on twentieth-century music composition. The next car has an expert on Chekhov, and the conductor studies philosophy.<br/>Guy #1: So anyway, Slavic girls are pretty hot.<br/>Guy #2: Yeah, for real.<br/><br/>--7 train<br/>via <a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a>, Sep 26, 2006