(Q - ??: I have a question which extends that of azfo, concerning the visual of the 560, the pencil which splits the sea, in V1 of the specifications, the pencil which splits
the sea goes from the bottom right to the top left, would if we have kept this version it have prevented the correct resolution of the enigma?)
MB : [laughs] we're asking some nasty questions here, do you realize that it's completely vicious to ask me a question like that? You assume I hope? Can I answer...and how I answer, that's it! These are the 2 questions I'm asking myself, I'm not sure, I'm thinking about the scope of what I can answer...it doesn't seem fundamentally important.
I complete my answer by saying that between the moment, at the time when Régis Hauser put the sponsor and me on the desk with his first draft of the hunt and the moment when I got to work with the notebook updated loads we will say, I imagine that he also asked himself questions by saying to himself well I did it like that, I see the image like that, I give such indications, it could have a importance of doing it like that, so I imagine that he perhaps found a certain finesse, a certain elegance and possibly to present it in this way rather than the other in fact, but that doesn't seem to me to be a determining element in solving the enigma.
MB : [laughs] we're asking some nasty questions here, do you realize that it's completely vicious to ask me a question like that? You assume I hope? Can I answer...and how I answer, that's it! These are the 2 questions I'm asking myself, I'm not sure, I'm thinking about the scope of what I can answer...it doesn't seem fundamentally important.
I complete my answer by saying that between the moment, at the time when Régis Hauser put the sponsor and me on the desk with his first draft of the hunt and the moment when I got to work with the notebook updated loads we will say, I imagine that he also asked himself questions by saying to himself well I did it like that, I see the image like that, I give such indications, it could have a importance of doing it like that, so I imagine that he perhaps found a certain finesse, a certain elegance and possibly to present it in this way rather than the other in fact, but that doesn't seem to me to be a determining element in solving the enigma.