VMs: Re: VMS: To Glen Claston

["GC" <gc-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anger made me write:

>   > [GC:] Most recently I was involved in a discussion with Jorge
>   > Stolfi ... he used republican labels like 'hallucinating' and
>   > 'imagining' ... These were not the words of a scholarly man,
>   > rather the labels were designed to keep me from counter-pointing
>   > ...

My friend Jorge responded:

> I never had such intention. If my ill-chosen words gave you that
> impression, please consider them as not having been written.

I also wrote:

>   > the pizza prize was apparently never a serious offer.

To which my friend Jorge again responded:

> The pizza bet still stands, at least from my side. I don't know
> what could have made you think otherwise.

Well, I might hold this opinion based on your current attacks, or based on
your past performance.  I might simply base it on the fact that I don't
really think you have any idea of what the Voynich is about.  It's a gut
reaction, something a good antacid could cure, but a reaction nonetheless.

Jorge, you're on of the people that behave like the evidence is on your
side, when its not.  You like to be provocative, I get that, but the
evidence for cipher far outweighs that of language.  You've certainly run
the numbers over the years, come down on the side of your own numbers for a
change.  Believe your own results.

I was initially fascinated by your examples of "retouching", and I thought
you might be onto something.  Your responses to my questioning were as I
said, intended to shut me down, and I wasn't happy about that.  You and I
have been doing this a lot of years, and to address each other in such terms
is to me inexcusable.  I do believe that if I ran the archives I would find
a time or two when I was disrespectful, so I'm a bit forgiving, It's the
timing more than anything else, when even Nick knows that I "have it", this
is just not the time for me to be "respectful".  A poor excuse, but I hope
you accept my premise.

It was not your pizza that was really in question, rather your willingness
to deliver.  I do not personally know the address of Dr. Strong's closest
heir, but this information is available to Jim Gillogly, as I understand.
Disgreements between you and myself should never get in the way of the fact
that we are arguing something that was solved in 1945, that I am not the
eloquent "decipherer" or that I am anything in this scenario other than an
historian that has done the work on Strong's existing papers that prove
beyond doubt that his claim was a correct and accurate claim.

It's not my pizza, I shouldn't get bent, but I do.  Go figure.

GC

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