This time Goldie rolled her eyes for real. "But you weren't even there!" she began to say, and then... "Oh, now I see what you mean. You weren't there but you will be. You didn't put it in his head, past tense, but you will — after you die and get sent back to his time, as him, so that your consciousness can somehow — without altering history — intervene with what we know today about the humble peanut and function as his muse? That is so incredibly... well, profound."
"We've only begun to scratch the surface of the Geistzeit theory," Blaustein said, a note of smugness in his voice. "But I can illustrate another of its properties by relating it to Hegel's notion of the Zeitgeist, if you know what that is. If not, stay tuned and I'll explain that too."
Goldie answered with a little shrug.
