# Digest urth.v029.n058 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Sep 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. --- ### David Duffy *04 Sep 2000, 04:04* > From: "James Jordan" > 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 Westlake *07 Sep 2000, 09:59 · follows David Duffy* >> At 14:04 2000-09-04 +1000, David Duffy wrote: >> >> From: "James Jordan" >> 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. ---