<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span><span style="" class="">Tzadkiel compares Severian, as a human, to a pawn. I take the chessboard to be the symbol<br style=""><br style="" class="">for time. Humans (normally) like a pawn on a chessboard, can only move forward and one<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">space at a time." <br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">That's a handy analogy, if not a complete system. There do seem to be essential limitations on all the time-traveling characters. One may imagine knights, rooks vs bishops, and of course queens. Even pawns can capture <span>en passant.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>On the other hand, no chess pieces travel <span class="" style="font-style: italic;">only </span>backward as do Ossipago et al. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""></span><span style=""
class=""><span style="" class="">Knights are especially prominent (Jonas) and yet especially limited. Which best represents the Green Man? <br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Note that kings are basically important pawns that can move backward as well as castle<span>.</span><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: italic;" class=""><br><span style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></span></div><span style="" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, October 17, 2014 10:52 AM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson@clueland.com> wrote:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div>
<blockquote class="" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class="">On 10/17/2014 7:00 AM, Lee wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none">> This may be an example of a character who can explore multiple branchings of both<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> the past and future. I suspect Tzadkiel can also do this. These are superhuman beings<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> who perhaps can explore time more flexibly than human beings.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Tzadkiel admits to it access of the numerous futures and pasts of his <br style="" class="" clear="none">purview and articulates a bit of his use of them on a couple of <br style="" class="" clear="none">occasions, so, yes.<br style=""
class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">> The Green Man and, eventually Severian can move backward and forward in time in more than<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> one step. But they are both human and thus perhaps still limited in their movement through<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> time compared to superhumans like Juturna and Tzadkiel. I think they can only travel a single<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> pathway while multiple pathways may be open to angels, they being closer to God (who has<br style="" class="" clear="none">><br style="" class="" clear="none">> access to all possible timelines, past and future) and plural beings.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Negative, Severian clearly takes multiple paths in the person of the <br style="" class=""
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