Pools and sunbathing and trips to the seaside and skiing in the
same day. The wonder that was Beirut. Real or imagined does not matter, for
there is a place, forever in us, to believe that it was what it was, even if –
not just politics that lead to war – but also difference in income and social
class matters too. In the words of someone involved heavily in the war: “I did
not even have the money, not to participate in what going on, but simply to pay
the taxi fare to go see what was going on”.