Reprimanded at the British Museum in London for bowing to, and polishing, this marble bust of Homer, the supposed author of the Iliad and Odyssey poems and one of the Idiot’s main literary muses.
Taking his last 6 a.m. stroll through Paris before bidding adieu to the City of Light (La Ville Lumière).
Reflectively window shopping (and only window shopping) at a new (to him) confectionary shop in the Marais district in Paris.
Having a final dinner at La Tour d’Argent restaurant in Paris before meeting Homer and Alexander the Great in London.
Loving the comparatively wild sidewalk gardens seen in contemporary Paris.
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.
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