Walking on a Barbados beach with his wife and daughter, Neville watched two boys turn over a rock; the larger of two crabs ran off, then returned to seize the smaller one, press it to its breast and carry it to safety - which he took as proof that even a crab loves and is therefore eternal.
Date (happened)
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [540206] belong to telling lecture nids [1458]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 2 June 1969
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-06-02.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1458 (certain delivery 1969-06-02); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1969`, 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 1969-06-02 on nid 1458 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
after 31 December 1945
bound · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 025)
Reasoning
Passage 540206: 'walking on the beach in little Barbados with my wife and daughter.' Marriage 1942-02-25 and the daughter's birth 1942-06-28 (chronology 819, 822) postdate his 1941 Barbados trip alone; the first family trip in the chronology is the sailing of 1945-12-31 (7904, 7907). Later family trips (1950, 1957 and after) also fit, so only a lower bound.
Sources
Source
- The Sphere Within ¶8 (One day, while walking on the beach in little Barbados with my wife and daughter, we watched as two little boys, walking with their governess, turned over a large rock to discover two beach crabs underneath.)