Who said futile?

Again, Mr Joe Felice Pace (The Sunday Times, October 10), manoeuvres anew by another soi-disant judgmental attitude of futility plus inserting a dangling reference to "competences", whatever this may mean.

Conversely, I thank this paper for acting as a capable vehicle to enable a most useful exchange to pursue the actual truth beneath statements in public.

For the umpteenth time may I wish Mr Felice Pace to continue to enjoy the blessings of his "arduous time with Guzè Aquilina". All I can offer Mr Felice Pace, who is no babe-in-arms, to court apposite redress since he invites me to look up Aquilina's manuscripts, and then I will be induced to retract what I wrote here! What preposterous fantasies!

The late Professor Aquilina was never the subject of any contention of mine. Equally and forcefully I too assert that what I wrote is factual. Mr Felice Pace thought fit to implicate unnecessarily my name and that of the late Antonio Cremona.

In conclusion, I may add that I intend to write in Il-Malti about Antonio Cremona, his life and times, together with certain vicissitudes he experienced in the 1930s and that need to be restated pointedly and forcefully now lest historical fact be distorted to accommodate agendas of selective contemporary image-building, and needless to emphasise, not avowedly related to either Mr Felice Pace or the late Professor Aquilina.