(Q - Hogan: Yes, it's Hogan, so it won't be a question about the enigmas precisely. It was me who put the message there, from beyond.
Do you remember what you responded to about the knurled button? So if I wrote this message, it was in relation to a reflection that I heard during the compass rose in 2000 at Buy-les.
-Baronnies Yes, there were players there on site and then a confession had supposedly been made so that, after all, has to be taken with a grain of salt, of course, because Max, who was anonymous,
apparently wasn't with everyone and he would have said at the time, anyway, for the owl compared to the other hunts, I have mastered the end of the game.
ass, way of speaking a little but, and I said to myself, But damn, he's going to give, so he's definitely going to give something at some point to loosen things up a little bit. So that was a thought.
compared to that, what you can say about it.)
MB: Well, I think exactly the same thing. I think Max kept it to himself which actually kept the owl from being discovered. It's the fact that Max had the owl seized, that he hid it from everyone and that he made arrangements so that, well, to make it last a little, to give himself time to to recover. And then he died. But otherwise, I am absolutely certain that he would have played the game of additional indications to lead the players until he found at a given moment where he would have said well, now, there you go, that's going to give me publicity, that's it. is the right time for it to be found and then there you go. I'm convinced that was it.
(Q - Hogan: Is that why we are sure to wait for an additional clue?)
MB: But that's exactly why I've been giving information since I took over the game, I've given information, I've given directions, so I'm entitled to bursts of messages. you say too much, you have to stop, it’s not possible”, et cetera. Well maybe I'm saying too much but for the moment no one has found it so maybe I haven't really said too much but I'm trying to do it with a careful dosage, what Max would have done with a careful dosage. much more violent to lead to a discovery at the moment he would have chosen for it to be discovered. But I don't want to, precisely, I don't want to distort the game so I make sure to allow everyone to redirect these thoughts, to consider things from another angle, to eliminate a certain number of false avenues, to to be able to concentrate on what is interesting and that's it, but without really giving additional indications which could distort the outcome of the game by favoring certain people and what I plan to do for the 30 years does not will not at all be of the same content as what Max has been able to do up to now, finally what he had been able to do at the time when he made additional indications which, once again, consisted in fact of paraphrase the riddles. It was the same thing, said another way. But it was the same. I'm going to come up with something, I'm going to offer you something which is with the idea of ??guiding your thoughts, not of bringing an additional element to the resolution of one enigma or another.
(Q - Hogan: To try to help break this lock.)
MB: To try to help find some logic in this story, to forget that Max was not a genius, et cetera. We have to stop thinking of Max as a genius, as a... we have to stop thinking of this hunt as being an exceptional hunt. This hunt is not exceptional in itself. The only exceptional side of this hunt is that it has lasted for 30 years and which has had this chemistry between the hard core of the players of the first period and a Max Valentin who was made with Minitel and who gave a completely false image both of himself and of hunting. And today, I am in the process, in small touches as much as I can, and perhaps not always skillfully, but in any case I try to make it as least clumsy as possible. I'm trying little by little to correct that. But without spoiling the game. That's all, that's the whole problem. That's why it's complicated. Otherwise, we wouldn't bother with life like that, would we? Well, we don't bother with life, but yes, go ahead.
MB: Well, I think exactly the same thing. I think Max kept it to himself which actually kept the owl from being discovered. It's the fact that Max had the owl seized, that he hid it from everyone and that he made arrangements so that, well, to make it last a little, to give himself time to to recover. And then he died. But otherwise, I am absolutely certain that he would have played the game of additional indications to lead the players until he found at a given moment where he would have said well, now, there you go, that's going to give me publicity, that's it. is the right time for it to be found and then there you go. I'm convinced that was it.
(Q - Hogan: Is that why we are sure to wait for an additional clue?)
MB: But that's exactly why I've been giving information since I took over the game, I've given information, I've given directions, so I'm entitled to bursts of messages. you say too much, you have to stop, it’s not possible”, et cetera. Well maybe I'm saying too much but for the moment no one has found it so maybe I haven't really said too much but I'm trying to do it with a careful dosage, what Max would have done with a careful dosage. much more violent to lead to a discovery at the moment he would have chosen for it to be discovered. But I don't want to, precisely, I don't want to distort the game so I make sure to allow everyone to redirect these thoughts, to consider things from another angle, to eliminate a certain number of false avenues, to to be able to concentrate on what is interesting and that's it, but without really giving additional indications which could distort the outcome of the game by favoring certain people and what I plan to do for the 30 years does not will not at all be of the same content as what Max has been able to do up to now, finally what he had been able to do at the time when he made additional indications which, once again, consisted in fact of paraphrase the riddles. It was the same thing, said another way. But it was the same. I'm going to come up with something, I'm going to offer you something which is with the idea of ??guiding your thoughts, not of bringing an additional element to the resolution of one enigma or another.
(Q - Hogan: To try to help break this lock.)
MB: To try to help find some logic in this story, to forget that Max was not a genius, et cetera. We have to stop thinking of Max as a genius, as a... we have to stop thinking of this hunt as being an exceptional hunt. This hunt is not exceptional in itself. The only exceptional side of this hunt is that it has lasted for 30 years and which has had this chemistry between the hard core of the players of the first period and a Max Valentin who was made with Minitel and who gave a completely false image both of himself and of hunting. And today, I am in the process, in small touches as much as I can, and perhaps not always skillfully, but in any case I try to make it as least clumsy as possible. I'm trying little by little to correct that. But without spoiling the game. That's all, that's the whole problem. That's why it's complicated. Otherwise, we wouldn't bother with life like that, would we? Well, we don't bother with life, but yes, go ahead.