We seem to live in a time when nearly all the news is bad news. America continues to 'go to the dogs', the planet is burning and no one in charge seems to care, the rich get richer while the homeless are to be "moved on" so that we are not reminded that they exist. That's a small smattering from the last few days. In the midst of such despair and gloom comes the story of "Fedora Man".
In case you were asleep while the Louvre was being robbed, "Fedora Man" was the gentleman photographed outside the museum walking past the police cordon.
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| "Fedora Man" |
Perhaps, Fedora Man was a Parisian detective, the Internet wondered. And very quickly, his picture went viral. That, however, was not the story. According to Stuff here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360880555/fedora-man-unmasked-meet-teen-behind-louvre-mystery, Fedora Man was fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, who has a penchant for dressing up 1940s style and who happens to like the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. He also happened to be on a trip to the Louvre with his mother the day that it was robbed.
Pedro, as most fifteen-year-olds might, could have held his hand up and said, "That's me, I'm famous!" But no, Pedro, lover of mystery stories, let it run for three weeks, until too many people were asking, "Was that you?" Then he told his story. I won't repeat it here, you can read it yourself at the link above. But, in a world infested with so much crude brutality, we need more Pedros. People unafraid to bring elegance to the ordinariness of the everyday, to inject some mystery into the banality of life and just have some simple fun. Perhaps those are 2025's crown jewels. Guard them, there are thieves about.
