(Q - ??: But it's true, sometimes we say to ourselves, but why did I start, why did I stick my nose in this?
Because once you're in it, you can't let it go and in fact, it chases you all the time and you wake up in the morning with Ah but yes, but that. But here it is, and it’s true that we’re hooked, it’s addictive!)
MB: But do you realize that practically none of you have any physical existence compared to me? I don't know you, I've never seen you, I hear you, your voices, the way you speak translate to me, explain to me, so many things, that I say to myself, but how could you throw that away? trash, finally, it's not possible!
(Q - ??: There are so many people involved…)
MB: , but of course, the people who are interested in the owl, today, it's several hundred thousand people, 300, 400, 600, 700,000 people, I don't know, but it's hundreds of thousands of people today, many of them have forgotten, are no longer even interested in it, but a certain number are there and me frankly, in relation to what... what am I going to leave behind me as that artist in fact, not much like everyone else, eh, whatever the artist we consider, whether it is Picasso or others ultimately, after a certain number of years, that becomes a lot of information, reference elements, etc., but the individual himself does not leave much.
I won't leave much behind, but this story of The Owl, in which I am very directly involved, at the origin of which I am, I say to myself out of honesty, it must remain, on the one hand, the truth must be reestablished and on the other hand, the people who were interested in it, the people who were passionate about it, the people who devoted thousands of hours, these people must , at no time, can we estimate them or even their descendants since today there are a certain number of owls who have finally died, it is their children or their grandchildren who have taken up the torch. And I say to myself, well, all these people, it's not allowed that at a given moment, they can say to themselves we've been had, we've gone into something that's bogus and that's it.< br /> That is the whole meaning of my approach today. Wow, I find myself lyrical there! Grandpa, you are lyrical!
(Q - ??: it's really legendary, it's a phenomenal story. I started 6 months ago by telling myself but it's still incredible that no one found this thing but the problem is that now I won't give up and sometimes I say to myself why did I start?)
MB: Well, that's a question that I also ask myself daily, eh. Sometimes I say to myself, but what would my life have been like for 30 years, if he hadn't bet on that damn golden owl?
(Q - ??: I would have saved money on Minitel…)
MB: Well, I would have made a lot of savings, eh, I would have saved 10000000 francs, I would have put them aside, I would be at peace today…
(Q - Xavier: they would have had babies since... Well, for me I mean that at the time you had invested a sum which was already considerable for a treasure hunt, but now the value is different, the symbolic value, the monetary value, the value is something else, we have gone up yet another level…)
Because once you're in it, you can't let it go and in fact, it chases you all the time and you wake up in the morning with Ah but yes, but that. But here it is, and it’s true that we’re hooked, it’s addictive!)
MB: But do you realize that practically none of you have any physical existence compared to me? I don't know you, I've never seen you, I hear you, your voices, the way you speak translate to me, explain to me, so many things, that I say to myself, but how could you throw that away? trash, finally, it's not possible!
(Q - ??: There are so many people involved…)
MB: , but of course, the people who are interested in the owl, today, it's several hundred thousand people, 300, 400, 600, 700,000 people, I don't know, but it's hundreds of thousands of people today, many of them have forgotten, are no longer even interested in it, but a certain number are there and me frankly, in relation to what... what am I going to leave behind me as that artist in fact, not much like everyone else, eh, whatever the artist we consider, whether it is Picasso or others ultimately, after a certain number of years, that becomes a lot of information, reference elements, etc., but the individual himself does not leave much.
I won't leave much behind, but this story of The Owl, in which I am very directly involved, at the origin of which I am, I say to myself out of honesty, it must remain, on the one hand, the truth must be reestablished and on the other hand, the people who were interested in it, the people who were passionate about it, the people who devoted thousands of hours, these people must , at no time, can we estimate them or even their descendants since today there are a certain number of owls who have finally died, it is their children or their grandchildren who have taken up the torch. And I say to myself, well, all these people, it's not allowed that at a given moment, they can say to themselves we've been had, we've gone into something that's bogus and that's it.< br /> That is the whole meaning of my approach today. Wow, I find myself lyrical there! Grandpa, you are lyrical!
(Q - ??: it's really legendary, it's a phenomenal story. I started 6 months ago by telling myself but it's still incredible that no one found this thing but the problem is that now I won't give up and sometimes I say to myself why did I start?)
MB: Well, that's a question that I also ask myself daily, eh. Sometimes I say to myself, but what would my life have been like for 30 years, if he hadn't bet on that damn golden owl?
(Q - ??: I would have saved money on Minitel…)
MB: Well, I would have made a lot of savings, eh, I would have saved 10000000 francs, I would have put them aside, I would be at peace today…
(Q - Xavier: they would have had babies since... Well, for me I mean that at the time you had invested a sum which was already considerable for a treasure hunt, but now the value is different, the symbolic value, the monetary value, the value is something else, we have gone up yet another level…)