This Piece Is Chaos: The #Tripoli Syndrome
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Like all of his colleagues, my barber knows everything. I was getting my hair cut at his shop close to my parents’ place in Tripoli last week, having hypothetically dodged potential bullets on my way there because that’s how people deal with their transport rituals there these days. He asked me about Beirut. Of course, he knew, but I told him it’s shit, anyways. As he wrapped me in a bib, I started watching the news on his flat screen TV mounted over a wide mirror reflecting another mirror on the opposite side of the wall, producing an absurd infinity effect.
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