Video Store in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: ‘God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don’t do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.’ So I really don’t think in the long sense.
— Marlon Brando
On my walk home tonight from St. Jude’s in Beirut, I ran into Marlon Brando in the video store–after having just bumped into Marilyn Monroe all over town…
