This was an oddly prescient paragraph. The lighthouse he refers to is the famous lighthouse at Pharos. He wrote this in 1996, five years before 9/11/2001. "The

This was an oddly prescient paragraph. The lighthouse he refers to is the famous lighthouse at Pharos. He wrote this in 1996, five years before 9/11/2001. "The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over. But it took only a few seconds, and if you were looking the other way when it happened, you might have missed it entirely - you'd see nothing but blue breakers rolling in from the Mediterranean, hiding a field of ruins, quickly forgotten."