Years ago, when Neville was in a slump, his wife told him his trouble was that he could not ask anyone for help and could trust no one but himself; he agreed, since there is no other to turn to.
Date (happened)
before 1900
bound · doubtful
Reasoning
v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv: type stated -> bound. Convergence of the w1 pass, which split on this exact shape — 25 rows with the 1900 sentinel year and a vague relative note were judged `stated` while 5 identical rows were judged `bound`. The 1900 here is a placeholder meaning "unknown, sometime before the telling", not a date any source stated; Neville was born in 1905, so "before 1900" is not a coherent bound on his own recollections. A claim whose year is that sentinel cannot be `stated`. Note the year itself remains wrong and is out of scope for L0.5, which may touch only `type` and `preferred` — reported separately. Source note as recorded: ""That’s years ago when she said that to me", told in Persistent Assumption (nid 1340)" || 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 1968-03-18` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1340). Nothing deleted, no year invented.
before 18 March 1968
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1340 (1968-03-18)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1340, delivered 1968-03-18 (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.
after 25 February 1942
bound · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 019)
Reasoning
'My wife' in a 1968 lecture is Catherine, whom he married 1942-02-25 (event 819); Mildred (m. c.1922-24) cannot be ruled out, so only possible.
Sources
Source
- Persistent Assumption ¶45 (As my wife said to me one day, “You know, the trouble with you is you can’t ask anyone for help. You can’t ask anyone…” I said, no, I can’t turn to anyone in this world to ask them to help me.)