In a vision Neville met Abdullah, now gone from this world, appearing as a majestic Caucasian man of about fifty and 6'5"; Abdullah showed him a little tape instrument that echoed back whatever Neville inwardly heard, teaching that the world is only mechanism.
Date (happened)
10 March 1964
stated · preferred
between 9 March 1964 and 10 March 1964
relative · probable
Reasoning
Anchored to the lecture's sole certain 1964-03-10 delivery date, 'last night' points to the evening of 1964-03-09 and 'this morning' to 1964-03-10 itself; the processing notes report both verbatim without reconciling them, so the range covers both readings of the same overnight vision.
before 1964
bound
Reasoning
Direct temporal wording places this event before the telling lecture.
c. March 1964
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 531481 (node 1148, 'Who Are the Condemned', pos 8) opens: Well, this morning, in my usual ventures in the mind, here I found Abdullah [...] Abdullah stands before me a man not over fifty years old, about 6’5”, in a Caucasian body -- a same-day temporal reference tying the vision to the day of this lecture ('discussing this theme of tonight' in the same paragraph), not to any other undated telling, so it is safe to compute from the lecture's own delivery date. That delivery date, 1964-03-10, is this lecture's only claim and carries state=legacy_unreviewed/method=legacy_event_backfill (a single uncorroborated catalog entry, 'Neville lectures catalog #205'); per the weakest-link rule a legacy_unreviewed source is written possible/probable even when it says certain, so I capped this derived claim at probable rather than copying the source's own 'certain' label. Separately, the lecture's own processing notes record an unreconciled contradiction: passage 531490 (not given to me as readable text, so not read or cited) reportedly places the same vision 'last night' instead of 'this morning'. Both readings fall within March 1964 given the 1964-03-10 anchor, so I recorded year+month only and omitted the day rather than resolve which of the two unreconciled readings is correct -- that unresolved day-level conflict, stacked on the legacy_unreviewed anchor, is the weakest link here.
Told / reported
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10 March 1964
estimated
Reasoning
Single, uncontested certain delivery claim.
Sources
Source
- Who Are the Condemned ¶8 (Well, this morning, in my usual ventures in the mind, here I found Abdullah. Ab is gone from this world now. Here stands before me—and Ab was my height, I’m 5’11”—Abdullah stands before me a man not over fifty years old, about 6’5”, in a Caucasian body.)