The Idiot was shocked to find that a valuable marble portrait head of Alexander the Great, which he flew across the Atlantic to study prior to the publication of The Idiot and the Odyssey III next month, had mysteriously been ”removed for loan” from a well-known museum.
The marble head of Alexander that The Idiot flew across the Atlantic Ocean to see was mysteriously “removed for loan.”
The Idiot spent days looking all over Paris trying to find the iconic art work depicting Alexander the Great, aka King Alexander III.
The first place he looked was on the Pont Alexander III bridge. But it turned out the bridge hadn’t been named after Alexander the Great but a Russian tsar.
He followed some French soldiers, thinking they were looking for the head bust sculpture, into Notre Dame Cathedral. But the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great was not to be found.
He didn’t find the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great among other sculptures in Paris gardens.
He didn’t find the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great on a park bench on Ile Saint Louis.
He didn’t find the marble head of Alexander the Great in a boat on the Seine at sunset.
He didn’t find the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great in a fountain on the Place de la Concorde.
He didn’t find the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great under lock and key.
Frustrated, The Idiot went to the Louvre Museum and, though he didn’t find this exact marble portrait head of Alexander the Great, he stumbled on three similar head bust sculptures.
The Idiot entered the Louvre through a secret entrance to see if he could find the marble portrait head of Alexander the Great.
He found this possible depiction of Alexander the Great in one of the African rooms at the Louvre.
He found the possible skull of Alexander the Great in a museum room dedicated to ancient Greeks.
Though not the one he was looking for, The Idiot finally found a marble portrait head of Alexander the Great in the Louvre.
When he returned to Los Angeles yesterday, he learned that the missing marble portrait head had been lent to LA’s hilltop J. Paul Getty Museum as part of its Egypt-Greece-Rome: Cultures in Contact exhibit which ends on September 9.
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