# followup on lander's destination--who decided? *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Jun 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ron Crown *27 Jun 1997, 11:52* After Kevin McGuire's post on his question similar to mine during the PEOPLE interview, I checked the transcript for Wolfe's answer which is given as follows: (emphasis added) "Quetzal, on his deathbed so to speak, advises them to land on Green. When they discover that he's an alien, _they_ reverse his decision and land on Blue, and I thought that was clear." I guess this is an example of how even an author can lose track of the details of his text because the text of that section in Exodus makes it quite clear that the _colonists_, following Remora's advice, decided to continue on course to Green and only discovered three days later "that the _monitor_ had overruled him [i.e. Remora]. No one questions _its_ decision now." (emphasis added). So Wolfe's online answer appears to make things even murkier! Details and memory! (two important desiderata for Wolfe and his readers, I should have thought) Ron Crown crownrw at slu.edu ---