(Q - ??: a question regarding this, are the Additional Information explained in the solutions or not?)
MB: No.
(Q - ??: Okay, because for me, in the Additional Information, there is what is needed to highlight this, to unlock this hunt and in particular in relation to this expression, and I find, I think that it may be a shame that you put them aside so quickly, that you say that there is nothing to take in them because precisely I think that certain Additional Indications are there to break this lock .)
MB: Listen, I was with Max Valentin the day we met the editor-in-chief of L'Express and a certain number of his collaborators in their office. We put the golden owl on the desk and discussed with them the special issue they were going to release on our treasure hunt, and the issues they were going to release with additional clues about the Golden Owl. I tell you, I affirm, confirm, underline, that the Additional Information is rubbish. It's food, it's currency, like, monkey currency for journalists.
I can give an additional clue, you give me 3 pages... I'm telling you this today, it's true that I haven't looked into the question since having spoken out loud, live, live, we is in 1993, with Max Valentin, I know very well that these additional, complementary indications, call them what you want, are Sansonnet's rupee. It's not worth a cent but…
(Q - ??: except the Tour de France?)
MB: Wait, yes, exactly, that’s absolutely true, and besides, I said it, I didn’t hold back on it. For what ? Because when it happened, it wasn't possible to lie. From the moment we say such a day the Tour de France has cut 2 lines, something et cetera, we can't lie or then we're below everything, then what's more we're at the start of the game, it's is really the launch of the game so there is no room for lies, bullshit, but afterwards when we start to discuss, I don't know if you realize what it is, but when you discuss with the editor-in-chief of L'Express at the time, today, it's not quite the same because well, the internet has taken over a lot of things, but at the time, the written press, it It was everything, there was nothing else, there was nothing better.
The editor-in-chief of L'Express is not someone you meet like that. hello, can I meet the editor-in-chief? No, no, it's someone who is not necessarily easy to reach, we, the little initiators of a treasure hunt, we meet the editor-in-chief of L'Express, who receives us in his offices with a small cup of champagne in a slightly haughty tone, a little bit, that's it, yes, good evening, so, what's your story, et cetera. You have to put yourself in context, it was important for communication. And what happened? Well it happened that a Max Valentin said well listen, here I am, if you give me 3 consecutive numbers, a special number something, I'll provide you, well we're ready to do that to you, but he you have to give us additional information, you have to give us something.
All the additional information work was oriented towards journalists, not owls. From the moment you understand that, I'm willing to talk about it, but stop thinking that Max Valentin could one day imagine for a second, create an additional indication to help the owls, but he had none of it to fuck.
(Q - Draz: I'm less cynical than that.)
MB: Less cynical, but you have the right, but if you are less cynical than that, you are missing the point. I experienced it, I don’t suppose, I suppose nothing, I’ll tell you! You believe me, you don’t believe me, that’s your right. I'm telling you, I'm not imagining anything, I've experienced it, I know what I'm talking about. I tell you the reality of things, you do what you want with it. If you imagine that the additional instructions are of any use, well you have the right! If you want me to be interested in it, I'm willing to be interested in it, I'm willing, when the time comes.
MB: No.
(Q - ??: Okay, because for me, in the Additional Information, there is what is needed to highlight this, to unlock this hunt and in particular in relation to this expression, and I find, I think that it may be a shame that you put them aside so quickly, that you say that there is nothing to take in them because precisely I think that certain Additional Indications are there to break this lock .)
MB: Listen, I was with Max Valentin the day we met the editor-in-chief of L'Express and a certain number of his collaborators in their office. We put the golden owl on the desk and discussed with them the special issue they were going to release on our treasure hunt, and the issues they were going to release with additional clues about the Golden Owl. I tell you, I affirm, confirm, underline, that the Additional Information is rubbish. It's food, it's currency, like, monkey currency for journalists.
I can give an additional clue, you give me 3 pages... I'm telling you this today, it's true that I haven't looked into the question since having spoken out loud, live, live, we is in 1993, with Max Valentin, I know very well that these additional, complementary indications, call them what you want, are Sansonnet's rupee. It's not worth a cent but…
(Q - ??: except the Tour de France?)
MB: Wait, yes, exactly, that’s absolutely true, and besides, I said it, I didn’t hold back on it. For what ? Because when it happened, it wasn't possible to lie. From the moment we say such a day the Tour de France has cut 2 lines, something et cetera, we can't lie or then we're below everything, then what's more we're at the start of the game, it's is really the launch of the game so there is no room for lies, bullshit, but afterwards when we start to discuss, I don't know if you realize what it is, but when you discuss with the editor-in-chief of L'Express at the time, today, it's not quite the same because well, the internet has taken over a lot of things, but at the time, the written press, it It was everything, there was nothing else, there was nothing better.
The editor-in-chief of L'Express is not someone you meet like that. hello, can I meet the editor-in-chief? No, no, it's someone who is not necessarily easy to reach, we, the little initiators of a treasure hunt, we meet the editor-in-chief of L'Express, who receives us in his offices with a small cup of champagne in a slightly haughty tone, a little bit, that's it, yes, good evening, so, what's your story, et cetera. You have to put yourself in context, it was important for communication. And what happened? Well it happened that a Max Valentin said well listen, here I am, if you give me 3 consecutive numbers, a special number something, I'll provide you, well we're ready to do that to you, but he you have to give us additional information, you have to give us something.
All the additional information work was oriented towards journalists, not owls. From the moment you understand that, I'm willing to talk about it, but stop thinking that Max Valentin could one day imagine for a second, create an additional indication to help the owls, but he had none of it to fuck.
(Q - Draz: I'm less cynical than that.)
MB: Less cynical, but you have the right, but if you are less cynical than that, you are missing the point. I experienced it, I don’t suppose, I suppose nothing, I’ll tell you! You believe me, you don’t believe me, that’s your right. I'm telling you, I'm not imagining anything, I've experienced it, I know what I'm talking about. I tell you the reality of things, you do what you want with it. If you imagine that the additional instructions are of any use, well you have the right! If you want me to be interested in it, I'm willing to be interested in it, I'm willing, when the time comes.