He recounts a dream told to him (in which he himself was driving a car, though he has never driven one): a woman named Lee sat at the extreme right of the rear seat waiting for Mort, he said “Only one more block and Oswald,” the Liberty Bell and then all the church bells in the country tolled, and the car split in two — the front where he drove protected, the rear unprotected.
Date (happened)
c. December 1963
unresolved
c. December 1963
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 036)
Reasoning
The dream names 'Oswald' and describes bells tolling nationwide, clearly evoking the 22 November 1963 Kennedy assassination; this strengthens (upgrades from possible to probable) the existing December 1963 telling date.
Told
December 1963
estimated · possible
Why
The owning lecture's own delivery date carries an unresolved internal conflict (age 59 vs. the December 1963 inference) -- worth a second look by whichever lane owns lecture dating.
Reasoning
Passage 545060 is Neville recounting the dream told to him -- driving a car he never drives, Lee at the extreme right waiting for Mort, 'only one more block and Oswald', the tolling bells, the car split in two -- this is the telling. The owning lecture nid 1807 carries only one delivery claim, already type=estimated/qualifier=exact/confidence=possible and explicitly marked 'weak' because it conflicts with Neville's stated age of fifty-nine elsewhere in the same text. The telling can be no more certain than that weak estimate, so it is copied across unchanged rather than upgraded.
Sources
Source
- Christmas, The Redeeming Message ¶47 (But here I am driving a car, and seated in the back of the car to the extreme right is one whose name is Lee, and it’s a woman. And the party that has the dream turns to me, the driver of the car, and she said, “What is Lee waiting for?” And I answered, …)