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The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Sep 2000
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David Duffy — 04 Sep 2000, 04:04

> 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?

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Peter Westlake — 07 Sep 2000, 09:59
  follows, by subject match David Duffy

> > 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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