Neville's father announced on the morning of his death, to Neville's brother Collin, that he was going that day, refused to be contradicted, and died that day — of a piece with a life in which he never doubted anything and read only the Bible.
Date (happened)
c. 1959
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 009)
Reasoning
Passage 532512: on the day he died he told Collin 'I'm going today'. Record 5951 dates his father's death to 1959; record 15157 (2-6 November 1959, dream of his dead father) puts it before November 1959.
before 12 January 1965
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1183 (1965-01-12)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1183, delivered 1965-01-12 (that claim's confidence: certain, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
c. 1900
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `probable`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1965-01-12` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1183). Nothing deleted, no year invented. || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900-refute: REFUTED. This event involves Neville himself and he was born 1905-02-19 (event 950 delta 9, `certain` + `preferred`), so 1900 is not merely unsupported — it is impossible. The event now displays no date, which is the honest state: the `before` bound appended by v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900 remains and is what is actually known. Row kept, not deleted.
Sources
Source
- Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶41 (The day he died he said to my brother Collin, “I’m going today,” and he said, “No, Daddy, you can’t go today.” “Oh, yes, I’m going today. This is my day.” He went that day.)