Neville describes hearing, over many years, an authoritative inner voice, and its answer when he asked in the Silence what the purpose of it all is.
Date (happened)
before 8 December 1964
unresolved
before 8 December 1964
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1840 (1964-12-08)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1840, delivered 1964-12-08 (that claim's confidence: certain, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
c. 1900
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `probable`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1964-12-08` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1840). Nothing deleted, no year invented. || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900-refute: REFUTED. This event involves Neville himself and he was born 1905-02-19 (event 950 delta 9, `certain` + `preferred`), so 1900 is not merely unsupported — it is impossible. The event now displays no date, which is the honest state: the `before` bound appended by v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900 remains and is what is actually known. Row kept, not deleted.
Told / reported
12 August 1964
stated · doubtful
8 December 1964
estimated
Why
Corrects the existing 1964-08-12 told claim, which was derived from a since-contradicted delivery date.
Reasoning
The existing told claim (1964-08-12) rests on a doubtful, day/month-transposed delivery claim that the corpus's own d1 note already identifies as contradicted by the preserved revision dateline. The certain d2 delivery claim establishes the lecture's actual date as 1964-12-08 (a Tuesday, matching the lecture's own announced Tuesday/Friday schedule), so the telling of this event happened on that date, not 1964-08-12.
Sources
Source
- For Hatching ¶0 (Over the years I have heard this voice. It has never led me astray and everything that it prophesied has come to pass, but everything.)