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...journey to Tyre in South Lebanon from Beirut, normally a one hour drive, has become a white-knuckle tear through twisty mountain roads and a bombed-out coastal highway that takes five hours...
...execution is excusable. "I didn't kill him," he says after one encounter. "All I did was shoot him in the leg a little bit." (In Hammer's world, that's a towel slap.) Sometimes he imagines the awful-delicious retribution. "If anything happened to Velda I'd tear the guts out of some son-of-a-bitch!" he muses in One Lonely Night. "I'd nail him to a wall and take his skin off him in inch-wide strips!" Other times, he keeps the violence strictly verbal, on the level of threat: "It's not easy to talk...
...know?” I didn’t know. But I began to understand by watching this extraordinary man’s magnanimous example. The notion of going slightly out of your way to touch a stranger wasn’t just the basis of a contrived tear-jerker movie, something that could only happen on the silver screen. No—it was something possible and real, something every human being could do with minimal effort. It was a humbling lesson that took some time to fully comprehend, a lesson I still haven’t managed...
With “White Bread, Black Beer,” Gartside has moved from deconstructing the love song to working out how love can tear itself apart—among many, many other things. If this shift makes his thoughts a little muddier (as he puts it, “Tying everything together / so I can’t think it anymore”), it also makes them much richer...
...about 20,000 Iraqis in Lebanon. He fled the nascent civil war in Baghdad in 2004, and now he is sick, he says, with an infection of his hip. He has no medicine and can't work at his job as a janitor anymore. As his eyes tear up, he pleads with me to call his sister in Baghdad to tell her he is alive. At this point, he breaks down and cries...