PEACE vs. ENGINE SUMMER

Michael Andre-Driussi · 26 Oct 2000, 07:27 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com>
Subject: (urth) PEACE vs. ENGINE SUMMER
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:27:42
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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 =3Dmight=
=3D
be damned, his narrative =3Dmight=3D 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.

=3Dmantis=3D

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