A woman from Florida who runs her own center and had rewritten the Book of Revelation sought Neville out one Sunday morning in his New York hotel lobby to boast of her eighty-year-old husband's sexual vigor; four years later she wrote to say the man had died at eighty-four and asked why this should happen to her.
Date (happened)
c. 1965
relative · probable · preferred
Why
The passage is ambiguous about whether 'four years ago' anchors the original lobby visit or the later death-notice letter; read here as anchoring the start of the episode (the lobby visit), consistent with the existing circa/certain relative claim from the same passage.
Reasoning
Passage 545996 has Neville say the lobby encounter with the Florida teacher took place 'only four years ago' relative to the telling. The lecture is dated 1969-03-17 exact/probable, so four years prior places the encounter at circa 1965.
only four years ago
relative
Told
17 March 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 545996 (in lecture nid 1830), deep in Neville's answer about Jesus Christ and David, is Neville telling the story of the Florida woman who boasted of her husband's vigor and later wrote of his death -- this is the telling. The lecture's confirmed, most precise delivery claim dates it 1969-03-17 exact/probable, so the telling inherits that date and precision.
Sources
Source
- Simon Lifts the Cross ¶38 (It took place in my lobby in the hotel in New York City. She came on a Sunday morning and she had to see me. I went down stairs to see her—Bill wasn’t dressed for anyone to come upstairs to our room—so I went downstairs and spent an hour.)