(Q - ?? and S17: various discussions on the principle of approaching puzzles)
MB : all this is very correct but you know I read it not very long ago, because it's near Niort or I don't know where, a municipality which launched a treasure hunt, when I read the text, I read the little article about that, I read the elected officials were inspired by the hunt for the golden owl and I can't stop reading that and that's for the local press in Niort and then it's Les Echos, the Capital magazine which does an article on the business of treasure hunts and which begins their article with "everyone is looking for the Golden Owl", it's the reference, it's is THE reference.
So that means that everything that was done after the Golden Owl was done in relation to the Golden Owl, therefore, and this is deliberately caricatured, all the stupid things that were done about the Owl Now, everyone tries not to reproduce them, everyone tries to say to themselves I don't want my hunt to last thirty years and then we never find it, everyone says to themselves I don't want the guys to go dig up what I buried with a detector, that they can do it any way they want, in fact the first who did it was Max, who from the Orval treasure stipulated that it was necessary to have the solution to being able to claim to be a winner because he realized that he had forgotten to write it for the Owl.
Everything is like that in this story and to reframe the subject, put yourself in Max's place in 1979/80/81 when he wrote this hunt, he was 40 and some years old, very good and what did he make a reference? Like us, like me anyway if I had done it at the time: Tintin, Stevenson, Treasure Island, Red Rackham's Treasure....What were the references in his imagination? That's it, it wasn't today's hunts, he didn't know them, they didn't exist.
His reference at the time was that, the traditional stories inscribed in the collective imagination, these stories that children loved to read, all these treasure hunt stories.
So how he did his thing: he hid his treasure saying I'm going to plant it there, what are we going to have to do to find it, we're going to have to do this, this, this,... I'm going to do my little thing in the manner of... and he was inspired by his own imagination, by what he knew at that time of treasure hunts.
So we're right on target, when I talk about pirates, I'm not talking nonsense, I'm not joking when I say that. I say he designed his thing in this same way, there is a secret code, there is a map, there is something hidden, an alignment, everything you can imagine, there is a little of each , and he made his sauce based on his own imagination.
So it doesn't compare with the hunts you know today, it's no longer the same and the Owl is really something else.
MB : all this is very correct but you know I read it not very long ago, because it's near Niort or I don't know where, a municipality which launched a treasure hunt, when I read the text, I read the little article about that, I read the elected officials were inspired by the hunt for the golden owl and I can't stop reading that and that's for the local press in Niort and then it's Les Echos, the Capital magazine which does an article on the business of treasure hunts and which begins their article with "everyone is looking for the Golden Owl", it's the reference, it's is THE reference.
So that means that everything that was done after the Golden Owl was done in relation to the Golden Owl, therefore, and this is deliberately caricatured, all the stupid things that were done about the Owl Now, everyone tries not to reproduce them, everyone tries to say to themselves I don't want my hunt to last thirty years and then we never find it, everyone says to themselves I don't want the guys to go dig up what I buried with a detector, that they can do it any way they want, in fact the first who did it was Max, who from the Orval treasure stipulated that it was necessary to have the solution to being able to claim to be a winner because he realized that he had forgotten to write it for the Owl.
Everything is like that in this story and to reframe the subject, put yourself in Max's place in 1979/80/81 when he wrote this hunt, he was 40 and some years old, very good and what did he make a reference? Like us, like me anyway if I had done it at the time: Tintin, Stevenson, Treasure Island, Red Rackham's Treasure....What were the references in his imagination? That's it, it wasn't today's hunts, he didn't know them, they didn't exist.
His reference at the time was that, the traditional stories inscribed in the collective imagination, these stories that children loved to read, all these treasure hunt stories.
So how he did his thing: he hid his treasure saying I'm going to plant it there, what are we going to have to do to find it, we're going to have to do this, this, this,... I'm going to do my little thing in the manner of... and he was inspired by his own imagination, by what he knew at that time of treasure hunts.
So we're right on target, when I talk about pirates, I'm not talking nonsense, I'm not joking when I say that. I say he designed his thing in this same way, there is a secret code, there is a map, there is something hidden, an alignment, everything you can imagine, there is a little of each , and he made his sauce based on his own imagination.
So it doesn't compare with the hunts you know today, it's no longer the same and the Owl is really something else.