Or dont talk about these prehistoric details _at all_.

Dont talk about the 80s. Dont talk about 27 different and incompatible implementations. Dont talk about lambda calculus or McCarthy. Dont talk about 1001 different editors. Nobody finding about Lisp today cares about these things, it is just annoying noise that dilutes the message.

If youre stealing the title of a Python book, then at least make the experience as newbie-friendly as Python is.