(Q - Xavier d'Homan: Okay, OK. Well, that's it)
MB: I'm going to try to be clearer. Wait, wait, it's interesting, all these questions, I'm going to try to be even clearer in my answer. I think that when the hunt started, Max Valentin, as we know, as I told you, as I wrote, as I told, modified a certain number of parameters, a certain number of labels and, not parameters but labels, and he changed labels, he modified things and that in his mind, as much on phase 1 where we had a sponsor, he was an external participant and he worked for a sponsor, he was paid handsomely by the sponsor, so when I said OK, I'm financing and let's go, in the mind of Max Valentin, I was more of a sponsor, I was a kind of partner, a sort of artist in search of notoriety and that he would, in a magnanimous way, finally bring me the notoriety that I was looking for, which changed a little the psychological context, the relationships between the different participants.
I think that at that moment, he recognized the fact that he was taking charge and he held the outcome of the hunt in his hands, that is to say that without his intervention, ultimately, the hunt would never be found. So he kept full powers over the operation, telling himself that one day or another he would release the necessary information so that it could be found.
I am absolutely convinced of this and the solutions that I have read, therefore which are extremely detailed, explicit and complete, which leave no gray area, neither in the plots, nor in anything you like, nor in my personal understanding of senile old men I understood very very well and so I see through all of this that Max Valentin had reserved for himself the ultimate lever which made it possible to say go today, I activate the lever and someone will find.
He did it on the Trésor d'Orval, he did it on other hunts, so he intervened. Today it's a common practice, eh, since when we see the hunts organized by Alvarez with the Trésor editions, Sipan's gold and all that, these are hunts that cannot be resolved without additional information. At the time we publish the thing, at the time you buy the book, et cetera, you may not find it all, at some point the game manager must somehow communicate additional information to you.
MB: I'm going to try to be clearer. Wait, wait, it's interesting, all these questions, I'm going to try to be even clearer in my answer. I think that when the hunt started, Max Valentin, as we know, as I told you, as I wrote, as I told, modified a certain number of parameters, a certain number of labels and, not parameters but labels, and he changed labels, he modified things and that in his mind, as much on phase 1 where we had a sponsor, he was an external participant and he worked for a sponsor, he was paid handsomely by the sponsor, so when I said OK, I'm financing and let's go, in the mind of Max Valentin, I was more of a sponsor, I was a kind of partner, a sort of artist in search of notoriety and that he would, in a magnanimous way, finally bring me the notoriety that I was looking for, which changed a little the psychological context, the relationships between the different participants.
I think that at that moment, he recognized the fact that he was taking charge and he held the outcome of the hunt in his hands, that is to say that without his intervention, ultimately, the hunt would never be found. So he kept full powers over the operation, telling himself that one day or another he would release the necessary information so that it could be found.
I am absolutely convinced of this and the solutions that I have read, therefore which are extremely detailed, explicit and complete, which leave no gray area, neither in the plots, nor in anything you like, nor in my personal understanding of senile old men I understood very very well and so I see through all of this that Max Valentin had reserved for himself the ultimate lever which made it possible to say go today, I activate the lever and someone will find.
He did it on the Trésor d'Orval, he did it on other hunts, so he intervened. Today it's a common practice, eh, since when we see the hunts organized by Alvarez with the Trésor editions, Sipan's gold and all that, these are hunts that cannot be resolved without additional information. At the time we publish the thing, at the time you buy the book, et cetera, you may not find it all, at some point the game manager must somehow communicate additional information to you.