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David Duffy04 Sep 2000, 04:04original

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From: "James Jordan" <jbjordan at gnt.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Parkroads (the new Suzanne Delage) One would think that the ship would be, in some sense, the Church, and its demi-god captain, in some sense, Christ. But that does not seem to work, ...but Chang did not strike me as very close to a Christ figure. ...So, perhaps the characters, in their eastward movement, are making a big mistake. The ship, then, would be an anti-Church, and Chang would be an anti-Christ. The characters need to turn

Not having read the story, is it the Ship of Fools?

Peter Westlake07 Sep 2000, 09:59original

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At 14:04 2000-09-04 +1000, David Duffy wrote: From: "James Jordan" <jbjordan at gnt.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Parkroads (the new Suzanne Delage) One would think that the ship would be, in some sense, the Church, and its demi-god captain, in some sense, Christ. But that does not seem to work, ...but Chang did not strike me as very close to a Christ figure. ...So, perhaps the characters, in their eastward movement, are making a big mistake. The ship, then, would be an anti-Church, and Chang would be an anti-Christ. The characters need to turn

Not having read the story, is it the Ship of Fools?

I don't think so - it has a Captain, for one thing, and the Parks are not shown as having any particular vices. As for Chang being the Anti-Christ, he really doesn't play a big enough part in the story for that, I think. Thanks for the ideas, though! Peter.

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