# Amazing Wolfe Revelations *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Jul 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. --- ### David Langford *12 Jul 1997, 10:08* In-Reply-To: <199707120102.SAA20769 at lists1.best.com> Mantis: many thanks for posting Our Gene's responses. > 24. "Why does the monitor . . . overrule their . . . choice of > Green?" Because the choice had been Quetzal's and the monitor, > seeing his body, realized that he had not been a human being. (You > already knew the answer, and gave it yourself. Why ask me?) I too was puzzled by various people's past confusion about this one (in the archive). Wolfe/Horn went out of his way to insert what would otherwise be a nonfunctional sentence: "As it chanced, there was a glass in this sickbay ..." So -- after initially accepting Quetzal's choice -- the monitor has access to the same visual information which causes the women laying out the body to scream. And changes its mind. > 25. "Does Green/Blue have anything to do with THE FIFTH HEAD OF > CERBERUS?" No. Told you so! > 27. "Is Pike's ghost really Quetzal?" No. [FX: sound of gnashing teeth] Dave David Langford ansible at cix.co.uk * http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/ ---