He recalls a saying of his old teacher Ab (Abdullah) about stripping any man you think important and letting him perform the normal functions of life.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1936
unresolved
before 1959
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [529334] belong to telling lecture nids [1066]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1959 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1959 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 13 November 1959
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1959 to before 1959-11-13.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1066 (certain delivery 1959-11-13); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1959`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1959-11-13 on nid 1066 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1929 and 1936
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002)
Reasoning
Passage 529334: 'He used to say' recalls the teacher's repeated sayings during their association, which the chronology puts from about 1929/1931 (963, 962) through 1933 (Barbados instruction) and Abdullah's 1935 copyrights; Neville lived near him at 75th Street 1933-36.
Sources
Source
- Esau and Jacob ¶18 (If my old teacher, Ab, were here, he would frighten you to death. He used to say, “If anyone stands before you, and you think him so important, strip him and let him perform the normal functions of life - and you will turn your back on him.”)