Rizwan Virk
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their hand at the top of their forehead, standing next to the statue.
Okay, you might think there's a bunch of crazy tourists just doing it for fun, but it's really weird.
So there's actually a picture that I found from the London unveiling of Rodin's The Thinker, which was George Bernard Shaw, G.B.
in the pose of the thinker.
Let's see if we can find this picture.
And so this was just the night before this was being rolled out to the public in London for the first time.
I forget what year, like 1902 or something.
This is like a famous picture now.
In the pose of the thinker, and where is his hand?
And he was probably standing right next to where the statue was unveiled.
And so you have to start to wonder, why would people do that?
Those hands are in a different position too.
Yeah, it's interesting, right?
And so there's almost three versions of this.