Coming out of the army in 1943 he and his wife looked for an apartment; the rent was higher than the sum they had fixed on, but he persisted in his imagined figure, and in the third month the manager apologised and reduced the rent retroactively to exactly the amount he had chosen - meanwhile the higher rent had won them their choice of wallpaper, paint and a wall-length bookshelf; they stayed almost fourteen years.
Date (happened)
1943
stated · preferred
Source
"Back in 1943", told in A Parabolic Revelation (nid 1460)
November 1943
stated
Source
After paying September and October, Neville received the retroactive reduction when he went to pay November rent.
Reasoning
Passage 540308 explicitly places the apartment episode in 1943 and says Neville paid September and October before the manager announced the reduction when Neville went to pay the November rent. This directly supports November 1943 for the reduction event.
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Told / reported
10 June 1969
stated · doubtful
Source
A Parabolic Revelation (nid 1460), telling 1460-9, told 1969-06-10
6 June 1969
estimated · probable
Source
A Parabolic Revelation, preferred chrome dateline 1969-06-06.
Reasoning
Passage 540308 belongs to nid 1460, whose preferred independent first-party chrome delivery claim is 1969-06-06 at probable confidence; the competing June 10 catalog claim is circular and doubtful.
6 June 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 543929 is Neville himself telling the retroactive-rent story ('I reminded her that back in 1943 when I came out of the Army...'). The lecture containing it (nid 1774) has two agreeing delivery claims that converge on 1969-06-06 as the sharpest reading (a recovered dateline, confirmed); the telling inherits that date at the same probable confidence.
Sources
Source
- Nature God Revealed Us ¶24 (Back in 1943 when I came out of the army I was looking for an apartment. My wife and I had determined how much we were going to pay for it, but when we found the apartment the rent was more than we had planned to pay.)
- Nature God Revealed Us ¶24 (I reminded her that back in 1943 when I came out of the Army I was looking for an apartment and I found one. I told my wife before what I was going to pay for it, a rental. It was a duplex, a lovely duplex in the heart of Manhattan.)