In his room on 49th Street he was involuntarily whirled out of his body onto a beach, returned deliberately to observe the process, saw his own body with its face veiled by cloud, failed to rouse his dancing partner and her parents, could not pass through the solid wall, knocked himself back into the body leaping head first from the 11th floor, and then realised he had given the wall its solidity — after which he simply imagined himself elsewhere and was there.
Date (happened)
c. 1900
stated · doubtful · preferred
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 1966-02-08` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1238). Nothing deleted, no year invented.
before 8 February 1966
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1238 (1966-02-08)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1238, delivered 1966-02-08 (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.
Told / reported
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8 February 1966
estimated
Reasoning
Passage534359 belongs to nid1238, delivered 1966-02-08; this is the telling date, not a fabricated date for the earlier projection.
Sources
Source
- Invisible Things ¶62 (I was in my room on 49th Street, and I felt this sensation in my head, and then the next thing I knew I was whirled out. There I found myself on a beach. I noticed this cord in my head. Having read and studied over the years about such things, I conclude…)