Death And Life

There Will Be Time, XI.

The Maurai have a drug that makes a person "'...believe whatever he is told.'" (p. 126)

Havig will use this drug on Wallis to gain control of the Eyrie. Dominic Flandry allows a drug with the same effect to be used on himself in order to mislead a telepath.

Kossara Vymezal is an Orthochristian engaged to Dominic Flandry on Dennitza but murdered by agents of the Roidhunate. Xenia is an Orthodox Christian married to Jack Havig in Constantinople but murdered by agents of the Eyrie. Thus, two women are one in faith, and in Poul Anderson's imagination, but sundered by timelines.

Havig encounters a different worldview among the Maurai where a philosopher thinks that:

"'...the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable.'" (p. 124)

This is the opposite of the significance of Jesus in Orthodox Christianity. When the Maurai philosopher continues:

"'Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.'" (ibid.)

- he refers to the old idea of death and life as cycle, not to the Christian idea of a permanent conquest of death.