Neville reflects on his father's poverty, later fortune, and his choice to keep lecturing

Neville describes being the son of a man with ten children and not two pennies to rub together, who when he died five years ago left a fortune that means Neville need not work — and says he would rather die tonight than stop lecturing and live on it.
Date (happened)
1959
unresolved
  1. 1959 stated · preferred
    Source Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶49"when he died five years ago", told in Purified by the Death of Your Delusions (nid 1832)
Place
Told / reported
  1. 28 January 1964 stated
    Source Purified by the Death of Your DelusionsPurified by the Death of Your Delusions (nid 1832), telling 1832-8, told 1964-01-28
Sources

Source

  • Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶49 (I’m from a background where I’m a son of one who didn’t have two pennies to rub together, and ten children to feed, and a wife, and himself, and a mother-in-law, and servants in the house, and not two pennies.)