Boneschi & Mr. H

[RonHorowitz <RonHorowitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. H, et al.,

OK, John, I'll take the bait, but I suspect any minute now the teacher will
yell "you boys stop it!"

>If
>anyone gives a hoot about what it was that I actually said, they can look
it
>up in digest v.9#700.

If anyone gives a hoot, which by this point, I'm fairly confident no one
does, I think you were quoted pretty fairly.

> I suspect my take on the nature and utility of
>history is clear enough, except for those to whom it isn't.
<

All jibes in jest, but were I a mean spirited fellow, I might suggest your
take on the value of your own opinion is clearer still.  Or, were I feeling
a bit more ornery, I might postulate that your take on the nature and
utility of history is clear to everyone _except_  for you. (lol.... OK,
well, I got a chuckle.... )

>. It might be
>interesting to hear a debate between Ron (facts are "neither true nor
false,
>but a matter of perspective on a larger picture not generally
comprehended")
>and Fabio ("with just a phone call I can get any question answered
correctly")
>but I will take a pass.

I see no basis _for_ a debate between Fabio and myself. "Any question
answered correctly" isn't the least inconsistent with "any question
answered completely", i.e.,  "perspective on a larger picture." Perhaps I'm
belaboring a point already made, but who was the first President of the
United States? Everybody knows it was George Washington, even though he was
like number 8 or something. Our only significant point of disagreement
seems to be whether or not the Boneschi car can correctly be refered to as
"the first Quattroruote." I'm inclined to say that imposing conveniently
ordered definitions on the vagaries of Italian automotive history is
tantamount to hubris, and that phrases like "the first" or even
"Quattroruote", rather like "the first President", may well be open to some
lattitude in interpretation. If Fabio had claimed the car was the first
_Zagato_ 4r, or the first _production_ 4r, or something along those lines,
the statement would clearly have been false. So far as I can see, such was
not the case.

At any rate, I suspect everyone's tired of the hair-splitting, and anyone
following the thread thus far will be interested to know more about a car
none of us realized existed. So what, exactly, _is_ the car? Aside from
what Fabio's said, I haven't a clue.

Fabio?
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