Neville reads out and expounds a letter from a woman friend who is present in the audience, describing a vision on 5 March in which she lay awake within a dream on a slab in a brilliantly lit morgue, saw a physician have union with dead girls to her left, recognised the black-haired nurse as the physician's wife by her smile, and then had union with him herself.
Date (happened)
5 March 1968
stated · preferred
5 March 1968
estimated · probable
Source
Passage 555113: 'On the 5th day of March, just a few days ago'; carrier node 2188 is dated 1968-03-11 probable.
Why
Year inferred from the probable carrier-lecture dateline; day and month are spoken.
Reasoning
The passage directly supplies March 5; the year is inherited from the carrier lecture's probable 1968-03-11 dateline, which also satisfies the packet's independent after-March-6 bound.
On the 5th day of March, just a few days ago
relative
Source
"On the 5th day of March, just a few days ago", told in Conception (nid 2188)
5 March 1968
relative
Reasoning
The passage states March 5, and the independently corroborated carrier date of 1968-03-11 supplies the year without crossing a year boundary.
5 March 1968
relative · probable
Why
Day/month are exact and stated; the year is inferred from proximity to the corroborated delivery date, hence type=relative/confidence=probable rather than certain.
Reasoning
The friend's own account states the vision occurred 'on the 5th day of March'; no year is stated verbatim, but the lecture's prior human processing notes confirm the internal dates ('5 and 6 March', 'last night', 'this morning') are consistent with the 1968-03-11 delivery date, i.e. this is a very recent event being told, giving the year 1968.
Told
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11 March 1968
estimated · probable
Source
Lecture node 2188, Conception; pre-strip document dateline 03-11-1968.
Reasoning
The testimony appears in node 2188, whose document-native dateline supports 1968-03-11 at probable confidence; this is consistent with both dated visions already being past.
Sources
Source
- Conception ¶3 (Now to illustrate it, let me share with you an experience of a friend who is here tonight. On the 5th of March, only a few days ago, just about a week ago, this was her experience.)
- Conception ¶3 (To illustrate my point, let me share an experience of a friend who is here tonight.)
Temporal reference
- Conception ¶3 (The friend dates her morgue vision to March 5, just a few days before the lecture.)