(Q - Marina: I had a question, I think it's quite simple actually, which concerns the maps, well the map of France, more precisely Michel. If I understood correctly, the first 9
riddles take us to a place on this map of France, if I put my finger on this place, then my question is very simple, eh, you will perhaps not answer it, I don't know, but if I
put my finger on this place, will I have the treasure under my finger.)
MB: I was going to say, how many shoes do you wear?
(Q - Marina: It's not an easy question, I know, but hey...)
MB: That’s not what I mean. I can't answer that because given the potential diameter of an imprint of your fingers, I know that in the minutes that follow, there are some who will extrapolate by saying that it represents a diameter of so much, a distance of so much, therefore, et cetera. God forbid I answer such perverse questions.
(Q - Marina: Don't let others think that I have big fingers anyway.)
MB: The problem is that the thinner the fingers, the more dangerous it is.
(Q - Marina: No, but what's impressive about this game is that you can imagine everything until the end. It's incredible, it's incredible.)
MB: no I don’t agree with that. Marina, we can imagine everything because someone opened the locks, but it was not me who opened the locks. Before the work I do today, there were decades where Max Valentin embroidered in all directions, he opened all that up. Always remember this absolute example that I find absolutely extraordinary. I was the other day in Rochefort in front of the painting and I was talking about it, I don't remember with whom, pointing to the rooster's beak and saying well, here's the top of my beak pointing towards Cherbourg and the bottom of the beak pointing towards Roncesvalles, they say. I didn't check, and from there, Max embroidered by saying I can't answer you and so he opened the door to all that.
But in reality, this hunt, if it had been seen without the perverse filter of a Max Valentin somewhere, the hunt would probably have been resolved much more quickly, because these questions would never have arisen in reality. And if we want to consider it in a fairly basic, fairly rigorous way, in fact, this hunt doesn't open up that many possibilities. The story that developed around it made everything we know, that lots of people spent lots of years digging into lots of subjects, looking for lots of things. It's fascinating, it's exciting, it's wonderful, but the hunt itself was and is much simpler than that.
MB: I was going to say, how many shoes do you wear?
(Q - Marina: It's not an easy question, I know, but hey...)
MB: That’s not what I mean. I can't answer that because given the potential diameter of an imprint of your fingers, I know that in the minutes that follow, there are some who will extrapolate by saying that it represents a diameter of so much, a distance of so much, therefore, et cetera. God forbid I answer such perverse questions.
(Q - Marina: Don't let others think that I have big fingers anyway.)
MB: The problem is that the thinner the fingers, the more dangerous it is.
(Q - Marina: No, but what's impressive about this game is that you can imagine everything until the end. It's incredible, it's incredible.)
MB: no I don’t agree with that. Marina, we can imagine everything because someone opened the locks, but it was not me who opened the locks. Before the work I do today, there were decades where Max Valentin embroidered in all directions, he opened all that up. Always remember this absolute example that I find absolutely extraordinary. I was the other day in Rochefort in front of the painting and I was talking about it, I don't remember with whom, pointing to the rooster's beak and saying well, here's the top of my beak pointing towards Cherbourg and the bottom of the beak pointing towards Roncesvalles, they say. I didn't check, and from there, Max embroidered by saying I can't answer you and so he opened the door to all that.
But in reality, this hunt, if it had been seen without the perverse filter of a Max Valentin somewhere, the hunt would probably have been resolved much more quickly, because these questions would never have arisen in reality. And if we want to consider it in a fairly basic, fairly rigorous way, in fact, this hunt doesn't open up that many possibilities. The story that developed around it made everything we know, that lots of people spent lots of years digging into lots of subjects, looking for lots of things. It's fascinating, it's exciting, it's wonderful, but the hunt itself was and is much simpler than that.