The story, which was later made in to a Novel, was told by Floyd Weston. However he stated during the telling of the story that he could not remember exactly how many points there were, only an approximation of 17. The original list of points he had was apparently long gone and he only cited a couple of the points in his talk. The list of the 17 points appears to have been made by someone else to coincide with the talk and was not necessarily based on the original list let alone the original references.