As a boy in Barbados Neville paid a boy who worked for his father six cents — the price of a pit seat — to laugh at the wrong moments during the twice-weekly picture shows; the boy, Mashama, nicknamed National, was thrown out every time and never saw a whole picture in his life.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1922
unresolved
between 1905 and 1922
stated · probable · preferred
Told / reported
8 March 1971
stated · doubtful
8 March 1971
stated · doubtful
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1155 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1155 delivery claims: 1964-4-3 doubtful; 1971-3-8 doubtful; 1970-1-1 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
after 1 January 1970
bound · probable
Why
Existing exact-day told claims (1971-03-08, certain and probable) rest on a legacy catalog date the lecture's own text contradicts at the day level; left untouched per append-only rule.
Reasoning
The two exact-day told claims on this event (1971-03-08) both derive from legacy catalog entries that node 1155's own text contradicts on the day (it frames the coming Sunday as Palm Sunday, which fell 4 April in 1971, not 8 March), and the 1964-04-03 alternative is independently excluded by the same Vatican-reform anachronism. The only claim the internal evidence actually supports is the bound: the reform took effect 1970-01-01 and is described as already complete, so the telling is after that date. This is coarser than the exact day but is what the evidence, rather than the catalogue, actually supports.
Sources
Source
- Christ Is the Reality of Man ¶14 (And I would pay him six cents to laugh at the wrong time — when everybody was about to cry, he had to laugh; if he didn’t laugh he wouldn’t get my six cents.)