A very close friend of his, a Freudian of the same age, could have been discharged that same month; Neville wrote and told him exactly what he had done, but the friend would not believe it, stayed in the army four more years, and later wrote a book with a chapter on Neville calling him an atheist.
Date (happened)
between 1943 and 1947
unresolved
between 1943 and 1947
stated · preferred
between March 1943 and March 1947
estimated · possible
Why
Refines the month bounds beside the existing certain year-only claim; does not alter or supersede it.
Reasoning
The existing field_date (1943-??-?? to 1947-??-??, certain/between) rests on 'the next four years' in passage 530917, with the start year implicitly matching Neville's own discharge year. The corpus anchors Neville's discharge to March 1943 (probable, his own platform recollection), and this event's description records that the friend 'could have been discharged that same month.' Combining the two narrows the start to 1943-03 and the four-year span to end at 1947-03. Confidence is held to possible, below the anchor's own probable ceiling, because the 'same month' detail is explicitly hedged ('could have been') rather than stated as fact.
Told
16 January 1964
conclusion
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1964-01-16 (node:1127).
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Sources
Source
- The Larger Venture ¶17 (And I wrote him what I did, but he was a Freudian, and he knew exactly how this thing should not work, so he never applied it. So he remained for the next four years in the army.)