# PEACE vs. ENGINE SUMMER *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Oct 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *26 Oct 2000, 07:27* > Alex David Groce wrote: > ENGINE SUMMER is an excellent > comparison--however, again, I think that Den is NOT one of Wolfe's > damned and trapped narrators (Number Five, etc.), while ENGINE SUMMER > has a profound atmosphere of imprisonment, in my mind. Yes, I agree: that would be one of the biggest contrasts. Den just =might= be damned, his narrative =might= be circular; Rush has no such escape potential. PEACE has a weird, dark, twisted surface, with odd moments of beauty and wonder; ENGINE SUMMER has a sweet, lovely pastoral surface, with odd yuckies underneath in the end. =mantis= ---