(Q - RD62: And when you said Michel that Max had put a lock on the end of the hunt…)
MB: No, he didn't put a lock on it. Let's say that the notion of a lock would consist of saying that we place for example, eh, it's an example, an enigma which cannot be resolved without additional explanation. But this is not the case, that is to say it would have been entirely conceivable that the hunt would have been found in 2.3 years, it was perfectly possible. Once again, if it hadn't been for the famous madits.
(Q - RD62: And so when you were referring at the end to his lock, what were you referring to?)
MB: So precisely, this notion of a lock is simply that obviously, for different reasons, Max did not quite, did not really want to give enough elements to go to the end like that. I think he was more or less surprised to see that despite that, his hunting let's say, allowed a certain number to advance and that where he thought there would be blockages, it was perhaps not. where they occurred. Nevertheless, he kept himself, so I think that it was both in relation to the sponsors since once again, he had, he showed his text with what we call the specifications, so the small descriptions of what the illustrations should be, he showed that to a lot of people and therefore publishers, potential sponsors, etc. And so knowing that he was showing it to a lot of people, he didn't want it to be understood like that too, too easily. So he had kept a certain latitude to be able, knowing that he would use the Minitel, to be able at a given moment to communicate the little additional information that would allow us to move forward. I think that was his idea. I'm even sure of it, eh, moreover, about the end of the hunt, because I remain convinced that he had not considered that the hunt, as published, could be resolved 100%.
And besides, what is very interesting on an experimental level, if we can say so, is what he did on his 2nd hunt since he still went there, he went to give a helping hand anyway. And I remember him telling me on the phone because I had talked about it with him and I asked him the question, as you do today by saying, but if someone comes near, etc., will you go there etc. ? He answered me, which shocked me anyway. But he answered me, ah well if someone is really very, very close and once on the ground he has difficulty really finding it, I would perhaps give a little help. So it's in his head, it wasn't concrete concrete, what, his thing, and he liked this Deus Ex Machina side where he kept somewhere the definitive controller and it was he who had the button to press on it anyway.
(Q - RD62: And at present this lock still exists?)
MB: At the moment, I have opened this lock through everything I have been able to tell you and I sincerely think that with what is circulating today as information, you have everything you need to find it. If tomorrow we stopped communicating, I think you could totally find it.
MB: No, he didn't put a lock on it. Let's say that the notion of a lock would consist of saying that we place for example, eh, it's an example, an enigma which cannot be resolved without additional explanation. But this is not the case, that is to say it would have been entirely conceivable that the hunt would have been found in 2.3 years, it was perfectly possible. Once again, if it hadn't been for the famous madits.
(Q - RD62: And so when you were referring at the end to his lock, what were you referring to?)
MB: So precisely, this notion of a lock is simply that obviously, for different reasons, Max did not quite, did not really want to give enough elements to go to the end like that. I think he was more or less surprised to see that despite that, his hunting let's say, allowed a certain number to advance and that where he thought there would be blockages, it was perhaps not. where they occurred. Nevertheless, he kept himself, so I think that it was both in relation to the sponsors since once again, he had, he showed his text with what we call the specifications, so the small descriptions of what the illustrations should be, he showed that to a lot of people and therefore publishers, potential sponsors, etc. And so knowing that he was showing it to a lot of people, he didn't want it to be understood like that too, too easily. So he had kept a certain latitude to be able, knowing that he would use the Minitel, to be able at a given moment to communicate the little additional information that would allow us to move forward. I think that was his idea. I'm even sure of it, eh, moreover, about the end of the hunt, because I remain convinced that he had not considered that the hunt, as published, could be resolved 100%.
And besides, what is very interesting on an experimental level, if we can say so, is what he did on his 2nd hunt since he still went there, he went to give a helping hand anyway. And I remember him telling me on the phone because I had talked about it with him and I asked him the question, as you do today by saying, but if someone comes near, etc., will you go there etc. ? He answered me, which shocked me anyway. But he answered me, ah well if someone is really very, very close and once on the ground he has difficulty really finding it, I would perhaps give a little help. So it's in his head, it wasn't concrete concrete, what, his thing, and he liked this Deus Ex Machina side where he kept somewhere the definitive controller and it was he who had the button to press on it anyway.
(Q - RD62: And at present this lock still exists?)
MB: At the moment, I have opened this lock through everything I have been able to tell you and I sincerely think that with what is circulating today as information, you have everything you need to find it. If tomorrow we stopped communicating, I think you could totally find it.