# Peace Assoc. *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Apr 1998* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *22 Apr 1998, 16:22* Then again, the first time I read PEACE I thought of it as being a lot like SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE; that Weir was "unstuck in time" like Billy Pilgrim of that novel; but that PEACE had a Faulkner flavor to it. That is, I didn't grasp that Weir was already long dead--I thought he might be dying of a heart attack or simply so old that he lived only in a half-life of random access memories colored by dreams and fantasies (i.e., that rationalization of Billy Pilgrim's plight). =mantis= ---