Child Neville fails to fatten ducks before dinner

In his large childhood household his mother would send a boy to separate two ducks from the flock and fatten them on corn for two weeks; when Neville forgot and only did it a few days before Sunday dinner the whole neighbourhood could smell that the birds were still fish-fed.
Date (happened)
c. 1910
unresolved
  1. c. 1910 stated · preferred
    Source The Implanted Word ¶5"as a child", told in The Implanted Word (nid 1206)
  2. before 1968 bound · possible
    Source There Is No Fiction ¶46qualifying source passages 552459; telling lecture nids 2052
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [552459] belong to telling lecture nids [2052]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  3. between 1910 and 1922 stated · possible
    Source Trust Imagination ¶28"when I was a boy", told in Trust Imagination (nid 1952)
Place
Barbados
Persons
Wilhelmina Goddard
Neville Goddard
the Goddard family
Told / reported
  1. 18 May 1965 stated
    Source The Implanted WordThe Implanted Word (nid 1206), telling 1206-1, told 1965-05-18
  2. 7 June 1968 estimated · probable
    Source There Is No Fictiondelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 2052 -- confirmed page byline 'Neville Goddard 06-07-1968', which the corpus's own reasoning uses to correct the coarser RFK-funeral-day inference (d0, 1968-06-08, now downgraded to doubtful)
    Why Genuine one-day conflict between the lecture's two delivery claims, already reasoned through and resolved by a prior pass (d1's WHY note); followed that resolution rather than re-litigating it.
    Reasoning Passage 552459 is Neville himself recounting, in first person, his childhood in Barbados raising fish-fed ducks for his mother's Sunday dinners; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 2052, carries two conflicting exact delivery claims; the corpus's own confirmed analysis resolves the conflict by preferring the explicit byline date (1968-06-07) over the looser funeral-day inference (1968-06-08), which it explicitly downgrades to doubtful without deleting. The telling inherits the byline-sourced date at its exact/probable precision and confidence.
Sources

Source

  • The Implanted Word ¶5 (But if you put them away as she told us to and fed them consistently and all that they could take for two weeks, they were as though they were raised from the egg on corn.)
  • There Is No Fiction ¶46 (Born in the little island of Barbados, we kept ducks and chickens for our own consumption. If mother wanted a pair of ducks for a Sunday dinner, ten days prior she would tell one of her nine sons to put a brace of ducks aside.)
  • Trust Imagination ¶28 (My mother said, Neville, get a few ducks and put them away. And I, playing cricket and playing soccer, forgot it.)