Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:09 pm
A bearded Greek man shoves away another man who is holding a tiny holy book, set in a brightly lit Roman town
Perhaps, the smaller man finds what the larger man is holding so amazing that he is compelled to snatch hold of it (little man's left arm is reaching around the big man's side) to examine it directly.
Unfortunately, it is a KJV devotional Gideon bible (large type edition, in a leather binding with a ribbon for marking key passage) stolen no doubt by a time traveler from a hotel room in our modern times.
This surely MUST have been, somehow, transferred back in time to the ancient Roman empire by unknown wizardry. Ahhh, Satan playing his tricks ... eh?
By induction, I have concluded, almost certainly accurately (except if it is not), that the large bearded man *could* have been the time traveler himself, but not necessarily so.
If the inanimate object was successfully transferred back in time, this does not necessarily imply that the man possessing it was a time traveler too, as this may or may not be possible with a living being, especially a sentient one.
That would introduce a new issue, to wit, that big guy would not be reading the words printed inside, as he would not read English (which developed in early Medieval times), especially all that Elizabethan prose flourishes such as thees & thous?
So perhaps, based on this geometric logic (as I grasp a wax ball in my hand which I squeeze nervously), the book is a relic left in ancient Roman times by unknown processes, and both men are looking at it in amazement, wondering (in their native Greek or Latin or Syriac programmed brains) "What the heck is this!"
Then the time period can be any time when men wore tunics and sported beards, perhaps in the NW Mediterranean Ocean Balkans, or Asia Minor in Assyrian times, or parallel universe where times and places have been preprogrammed into the cosmic Wayback Machine.
Since one thing can be conceived, then there MUST be an infinite number of alternate universes with their own timelines that have the miraculous power to seamlessly interface with on another for the assistance of amateur critics and TV & movie script writers.
Cue SA.
DCH
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