On Off Digital World and the News of the Day

What a great day, what great weather! But for all that, the news was unavoidable: it was just as I went down the street outside of On Off Digital World, one of those old-fashioned mom-and-pop operations from a generally bygone era in New York retailing, when the TV sets in the store window displayed, what else, but more Osama bin Laden news. But that’s how it is. He’s Osama bin Laden, you know — the devil himself as far as most Americans are concerned. But it’s quite a contrast, all this dramatic historic stuff in the midst of such a serene day. This is a day of smiles for me, the very definition of a spring day, yet the news pervades my waking hours like nothing else.