Neville recalls telling Aldous Huxley, who read the New Testament in the original Greek, that he still did not understand it.
Date (happened)
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [540531] belong to telling lecture nids [1469]. 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 16 July 1969
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-07-16.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1469 (certain delivery 1969-07-16); 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 1969-07-16 on nid 1469 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 22 November 1963
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 026)
Reasoning
Passage 540531: Huxley is spoken of as already dead ('He is gone from this world now'); Aldous Huxley died 22 November 1963. The 'just about three months ago' belongs to the recent questioner, whom he answered as he had answered Huxley.
Sources
Source
- Many Mansions ¶1 (I said to him: “You know, Aldous, you read it in Greek and you read it in English, and yet you don’t understand it.”)