Acres And Wildfowl

Before anyone else points this out, while quoting passages in the preceding post, I skipped past a relevant paragraph in There Will Be Time. This was because it was rather long and did not quite fit in with the others but here it is in full - I do not seem to have quoted it before -:

"...Jesus might be nothing more than an Osirian-Essene-Mithraic myth. Suppose he wasn't, though? Suppose he was, well, not the literal incarnation of the Creator of these acres, those wildfowl, yonder universe...but at least the prophet from whose vision stemmed most of what was decent in all time to come. Could a life be better spent than following him on his ministry?

"Well, Havig would have to become fluent in Aramaic, plus a million details of living, and he would have to forget his quest...."

-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, New York, March 1073), VI, p. 60.

Obsevations

(i) The ministry was short so a life would not be spent.

(ii) But fluency in Aramaic would be difficult.

(iii) But it could be gained there and then.

(iv) The mutant time travellers also need longevity.

(v) If I had Jack Havig's power, then Jesus is certainly one of the people that I would research and want to meet.

(vi) He could not possibly have suspected what future millennia would make of him.

(vii) Most decency has not stemmed from a single prophet.