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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

Beirut #2, to include labneh, the 1967 club, the beach, arak…

This morning I am considerably tired I think. I think it might be that candle, or the midnight lamp, or over-enthusiastic daytime weekend sleeping, or the sluggish pace at which this loads- perhaps it’s the cumbersome name trying to squeeze through the telecommunications system. Sorry about that. I’ve been attempting to accumulate basic bits of Arabic,

Beirut

You come down low over the water, an acute angle to the coastline, and it feels like you’re about to land in the sea, as south Beirut lights pass on the left. Then you touch down and the brake flaps shudder, and the anxiety of such a short flight passes. Just 25 minutes from Cypress, [...]

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