Neville tried assuming he was somewhere his reason and senses denied, stayed in the state until it seemed natural, then opened his eyes and was shocked to find himself back in his chair — and was afterwards carried across a series of events to the fulfilment of that state.
Neville places the exercise on the snowbound night he introduced his first book, Your Faith Is Your Fortune, in February 1941 -- a low-turnout crowd unprepared to buy it -- after which he went home through a foot or more of snow and, in bed, assumed himself in his mother's home in Barbados.
Date (happened)
February 1941
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
All 3 claims agree on 1941-02: passage:538527; node:1375; passage:538528.
February 1941
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
Only month and year are given; the exact day within February 1941 is not stated.
Reasoning
Passages 538528-538529, the immediate continuation of the cited witness 538527 within the same telling, identify the night of the assumption exercise as the same evening as the book-launch talk he places in February 1941 (low, snowbound turnout for a book he had 'brought out'); this is the happening date, distinct from the 1968-07-22 telling date already on the event.
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [538527] belong to telling lecture nids [1375]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 22 July 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-07-22.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1375 (certain delivery 1968-07-22); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1968-07-22 on nid 1375 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Sources
Source
- Faith ¶6 (So, I tried it. I tried assuming that I am where reason would deny it, my senses deny it, but I remained in that state until it seemed natural to me, just seemed natural. Well, then, I went there. And, then, I opened my eyes upon the world that I had shu…)
Temporal reference
- Faith ¶7 ('a very cold winter night ... brought out my first book ... in the month of February in 1941' -- dates the exercise)
- Faith ¶8 ('When I went home that night the snow was ... twelve or fourteen inches' -- continues the same night's account)