Re: alfa-digest V7 #812

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 6/14/99 11:25:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< if you close one eye and squint a bit you
 could almost imagine yourself in the Italian Alps, behind the wheel of a
 clean Gran Sport Alfa Romeo, it's 8 cylinders purring mightily under the
 hood as you negotiate the switchbacks... Pocketa-Pocketa...
 
 W. Mitty
 somewhere in the Swiss Alps >>


Dear Mr. Mitty,

I believe it is a Pierce-Arrow that goes "pocketa-pocketa" in the Alps; an 8C 
hums along "Ta-pocketa ta-pocketa" with a Nessun Dorma ostinato.

Thurber

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