(Q - Harvester: What Max wrote in the book, in the first edition, the one that came out, was your story, it was the treasure hunt, which you were passionate about
pirates... Is all that true?)
MB: No, but Max was an advertising man, a peddler as I like to ramble about.
(Q - ??: We know that now.)
MB: Yes, but then it's funny because you know it, but you don't understand it well.
(Q - Blackbeard: Well wait Michel, wait, we still have one..)
MB: I'm waiting, I'm waiting. I've been waiting 30 years.
(Q - Blackbeard: We are still facing a guy who played for 30 years. Well, for several years with gold prospectors and who had a little fun with it, who abused it a little, to see who could try, who could smell in relation to all that and so there you have it, that's the camelot side I think we all understood it there I think at the moment. today…)
MB: I'm not sure, the only dimension that perhaps some people didn't understand is that he was a professional peddler. Eh, he wasn't an occasional peddler, it was his job. It was his job to sell junk and so he knew how to do it very well.
(Q - Blackbeard: And he sold us his junk all the same, eh Michel, admit there is still…)
MB: The first one he sold it to. Yes, it’s me, that’s for sure. He sold it very well to me, and to everyone.
(Q - Blackbeard: So much the better…)
MB: But I'm not crying or deploring it. I say so much the better too, I think that Max Valentin is the first virtual and mythical character of this hunt. Behind him, just behind him, is you, the community of owls. (There is you MIchel) No no.
(Q - Brybry Hummingbird: Go check that there was indeed an owl buried anyway.)
MB: Don't get me wrong, I come in third place. You are in second place. The community of owls taken as a whole, whether my detractors, my pimps as some of my friends would say. You understand what I mean, I am in third position. The second truly dominant, preponderant and determining entity in this story is the community of owls. Max Valentin, the community of owls. I come last chronologically. And then in terms of, of importance, I come last really.
(Q - Blackbeard: You are modest..)
(Q - Aladore: You were there at the start and without you now well it was dead, eh, it was dead exactly…)
(Q - Brybry Colibri: Not to shine the pumps but if the owl had not been validated, you went to check, it was still…)
MB: No, you're cute but what gives the story its dimension isn't me, it's you, much more than you imagine.
(Q - Samsam: I think that Max Valentin made a lot of people dream and you have taken over and you also make these people dream.)
MB: So Max Valentin is not Max Valentin alone. There was a tandem which chronologically fell right at the right time, it was the Max Valentin Minitel tandem, because it was the Minitel era. It was the time when the guys who today pride themselves on the Internet, fantasized about the Minitel, which was much classier. And Max Valentin, he arrived at a moment when this Minitel which was still something incomplete, still imperfect but which still gave the impression that we were exchanging directly with someone, which was not not quite the case, but the Minitel was at the time such a new, so surprising tool. The character of Max Valentin, the notion of a treasure hunt, all of that came together. And chronologically, it came at the right time.
MB: No, but Max was an advertising man, a peddler as I like to ramble about.
(Q - ??: We know that now.)
MB: Yes, but then it's funny because you know it, but you don't understand it well.
(Q - Blackbeard: Well wait Michel, wait, we still have one..)
MB: I'm waiting, I'm waiting. I've been waiting 30 years.
(Q - Blackbeard: We are still facing a guy who played for 30 years. Well, for several years with gold prospectors and who had a little fun with it, who abused it a little, to see who could try, who could smell in relation to all that and so there you have it, that's the camelot side I think we all understood it there I think at the moment. today…)
MB: I'm not sure, the only dimension that perhaps some people didn't understand is that he was a professional peddler. Eh, he wasn't an occasional peddler, it was his job. It was his job to sell junk and so he knew how to do it very well.
(Q - Blackbeard: And he sold us his junk all the same, eh Michel, admit there is still…)
MB: The first one he sold it to. Yes, it’s me, that’s for sure. He sold it very well to me, and to everyone.
(Q - Blackbeard: So much the better…)
MB: But I'm not crying or deploring it. I say so much the better too, I think that Max Valentin is the first virtual and mythical character of this hunt. Behind him, just behind him, is you, the community of owls. (There is you MIchel) No no.
(Q - Brybry Hummingbird: Go check that there was indeed an owl buried anyway.)
MB: Don't get me wrong, I come in third place. You are in second place. The community of owls taken as a whole, whether my detractors, my pimps as some of my friends would say. You understand what I mean, I am in third position. The second truly dominant, preponderant and determining entity in this story is the community of owls. Max Valentin, the community of owls. I come last chronologically. And then in terms of, of importance, I come last really.
(Q - Blackbeard: You are modest..)
(Q - Aladore: You were there at the start and without you now well it was dead, eh, it was dead exactly…)
(Q - Brybry Colibri: Not to shine the pumps but if the owl had not been validated, you went to check, it was still…)
MB: No, you're cute but what gives the story its dimension isn't me, it's you, much more than you imagine.
(Q - Samsam: I think that Max Valentin made a lot of people dream and you have taken over and you also make these people dream.)
MB: So Max Valentin is not Max Valentin alone. There was a tandem which chronologically fell right at the right time, it was the Max Valentin Minitel tandem, because it was the Minitel era. It was the time when the guys who today pride themselves on the Internet, fantasized about the Minitel, which was much classier. And Max Valentin, he arrived at a moment when this Minitel which was still something incomplete, still imperfect but which still gave the impression that we were exchanging directly with someone, which was not not quite the case, but the Minitel was at the time such a new, so surprising tool. The character of Max Valentin, the notion of a treasure hunt, all of that came together. And chronologically, it came at the right time.