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Francois: So, I hear the book is done.
Falcon: Done is a relative term when it comes to many things in my life - including the book.
Francois: So, how am I to interpret that? The book isn't done?
Falcon: It's in the hands of a publisher if that is what you mean.
Francois: Okay, either you are being difficult or I am missing something - which is it?
Falcon: (Laughing) Both, actually. There are a few footnotes to be finished and I am waiting for
the forward to be completed by Mike Grady, so, there are a few minor things that need to be com-
pleted. But, as I recently learned, there is more to be done.
Francois: Meaning?
Falcon: First of all, we never want our Methodology to stop - hmmm - maturing as our under-
standing of the world around us - especially light - continues to evolve. I have only now begun to
understand - and be able to articulate - what the Merlot Effect is and why our Methodology works.
Francois: I see. This is an allusion to the research you have been doing if I am correct?
Falcon: Yes, though I am not sure I ever stopped pursuing the 'answer' to the Merlot Effect. You
can blame Arthur Koestler for instilling in me a desire to think each thought to its last and logical
conclusion.
Francois: Let me see if I remember - Darkness at Noon - Rubashov is guilty of thinking each
and every thought to its last and logical conclusion. Am I correct?
Falcon: Yes. You know you are going to give everyone who reads this interview the mistaken ideas
that Darkness at Noon is required reading for everyone in this company
Francois: Isn't it?
Falcon: (Laughing) No, but it should be. And please, no sarcasm.
Francois: (Laughing) Me? Sarcastic?
Falcon: (Laughing) Yes, you.
Francois: Seriously, when I read the book last fall I realized how important that book was to how
you have come to see the world.
Falcon: Yes. Without a doubt. So, is that what we are going to discuss in this interview?
Francois: As much as I would like to, no, though I can't say definitively that that book won't enter
into the discussion. I am curious about the research you have been doing and how that has helped
you understand the Merlot Effect.
Falcon: How so?
Francois: With all due respect, anyone who knows you - even in passing - knows you think in-
cessantly and that often you think at a depth that most of us find, well, difficult to match. I also
know that you concluded long ago that science isn't about facts. Science is a - what is the phrase

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