As a child in Barbados he ran school obstacle races - crawling under a tightly pegged tarpaulin, through barrels, over an obstruction, up a greased pole and finally chasing a greased pig - which he takes as an image of life.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1920
unresolved
between 1905 and 1920
stated · probable · preferred
Told / reported
31 May 1963
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1110 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1110 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1963-5-31 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1963-5-31 certain; 1968-10-4 refuted; 1963-5-31 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1968-10-04 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
4 October 1968
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1110, 1968-10-4) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1963-5-31. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- On the Book of Revelation ¶5 (Did you ever run, as child, an obstacle race? Well, in little Barbados we had those. Our teachers would simply put a tarpaulin down, and it was as flat as this desk, and we had to run through this very tightly formed canvas, where it was anchored on both…)