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...amphitheater is made of wood, and its vast roof arches gently overhead like the soundboard of a huge violin. It begins to resonate to the sonorities of Dvořák's Eighth Symphony. "Wood is the best acoustic material there is," Gottschalk says. "Concrete is dead. Wood is alive." Appearing peaceful and intent, hearing nothing that requires correction, he lets the Dvořák build and flow...
There is one last place to see: the roof of the bunker where Samer and Colonel Azmi were encountered last September. At the time, this roof was a room, an office, with straw walls, a straw roof, furniture and people. Over there stood the colonel's Swedish modern desk, disproportionately large and stylish. Red fake-leather chairs were positioned with their backs to the walls on two sides of the office. On them sat a dozen of the colonel's men-his inner circle perhaps. None spoke but the colonel, though all nodded approvingly at his harangue...
...only in the memory. The colonel is not here. The desk is not here. Nor the men, nor the roof, nor the walls. Nothing remains on top of this bunker any more, including a portion of the roof itself, heaved high in a corner by an Israeli artillery hit. Where the colonel delivered his harangue, the noon sun drills. There is nothing else but silence and loose straw. No one who did not know what function the straw originally served could possibly guess that this was once a place of importance...
With the walls down, one can clearly see the Mediterranean from the roof, not 500 yds. to the west. The mind sails it; first into the past, then north up the coast to where the past is now, to the besieged city with its sonic booms and rubbish fires and damaged children. It was for children this trip was taken in the first place. Two are known to be safely out of Lebanon. One is well in Beirut, though in a perilous position. The fourth is probably all right, in hiding with his mother, who will be protected...
...from below as the relentless sun works from the top. In a marketplace in a Palestinian camp, where Ahmed is thought to be located, a walleyed woman asks furiously: "What do you think of these dogs, the Arabs?" A camp security guard points out a grape arbor on a roof and explains that Palestinians create such things "to express their relationship with their native home...