# Tzadkiel *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 09 Jan 2000* > 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. --- ### Jim Jordan *09 Jan 2000, 15:36* > At 12:13 PM 4/25/99 -0400, Alga wrote: > > "Yours is a race of pawns," Tzadkiel told me. "You move forward only, > unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on > the board are pawns." Given *Strange Travelers,* we now recall that pawns advance until they become queens. The other pieces may look bigger and be able to do more, but at the end, the pawn becomes the bride of Christ. Nutria --- ### Nicholas Gevers *09 Jan 2000, 21:25 · follows Jim Jordan* The chess analogy arises in "To the Seventh", a story I found problematic in various ways. Nutria, do you think God's shifting of focus to another part of the board near the end will save Chance and co, diverting Satan long enough for the pawn to queen? And: why the comic book texture of the universe portrayed? I thought Wolfe might be implying Chance's cosmos is an inferior parody of reality, its "God" a demiurge... > --- Jim Jordan wrote: > At 12:13 PM 4/25/99 -0400, Alga wrote: >> "Yours is a race of pawns," Tzadkiel told me. > "You move forward only, > unless we move you back to begin the game again. > But not all the pieces on > the board are pawns." > > Given *Strange Travelers,* we now recall that pawns > advance until they > become queens. The other pieces may look bigger and > be able to do more, but > at the end, the pawn becomes the bride of Christ. > > Nutria ---