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  "thread": {
    "id": 377,
    "subject": "followup on lander's destination--who decided?",
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    "first": "1997-06-27T11:52:56+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-27T11:52:56+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0481@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Crown",
        "address": "crownrw at slu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-27T11:52:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) followup on lander's destination--who decided?",
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          "text": "After Kevin McGuire's post on his question similar to mine during the\nPEOPLE interview, I checked the transcript for Wolfe's answer which is\ngiven as follows: (emphasis added)\n\n\t\"Quetzal, on his deathbed so to speak, advises them to land on \tGreen. \nWhen they discover that he's an alien, _they_ reverse \this decision and\nland on Blue, and I thought that was clear.\"\n\nI guess this is an example of how even an author can lose track of the\ndetails of his text because the text of that section in Exodus makes it\nquite clear that the _colonists_, following Remora's advice, decided to\ncontinue on course to Green and only discovered three days later \"that\nthe _monitor_ had overruled him [i.e. Remora].  No one questions _its_\ndecision now.\"  (emphasis added).\n\nSo Wolfe's online answer appears to make things even murkier!\n\nDetails and memory!  (two important desiderata for Wolfe and his\nreaders, I should have thought)\n\nRon Crown\ncrownrw at slu.edu"
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