“Everyone called her Gigi, and I remember her dancing uninhibitedly with friends in the Roman ruins at Ballbek late at night during the civil war.”
So says Charles Glass in “The Lord of No Man’s Land: A guided tour through Lebanon’s ceaseless war.” in the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine
Now this may well be true, but it reads to me like someone who has been wanting to use that line for a long, long time and this article was his excuse. Someday I’ll have a line worthy of writing an entire Harper’s piece in support of.
Either that or he’s simply channeling Fellini. Wasn’t that scene in La Dolce Vita??