He describes finding his own world a wild, unpruned tree of the blind and the lame, being told it did not exist independently of his perception, and then becoming the vinedresser who pruned it.
Date (happened)
before 1963
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [548545] belong to telling lecture nids [1909]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1963 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1963 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 7 May 1963
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 036)
Reasoning
Telling lecture nid 1909 has two competing probable delivery days; the later, 1963-05-07, is the safe upper bound.
Told / reported
7 May 1963
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
All 2 claims agree on 1963-05-07: node:1909; node:1909.
7 May 1963
stated · probable
7 May 1963
stated · probable
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1909 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1909 delivery claims: 1963-5-7 probable; 1963-5-5 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
Sources
Source
- I AM the Vine ¶11 (And so when I found it, it was a wild tree. I hadn’t pruned it, and I had allowed it over the unnumbered years of time to go into useless leaves. Then I became the vinedresser, and then I would prune it.)
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
| Date |
Lecture or book |
Telling |
Passage |
| 1963-05-05 [exact/probable/preferred] |
I AM the Vine |
And when I tell you the story, you may at this moment find this vine a wild tree. I found it a wild tree. Whenever I heard the story—whenever you hear it—at that moment it’s a wild tree. And so the poet said, “I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant and then it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted as you see into these full clean clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.” And so, if you look, it’s a wild, wild tree. I had brought in everything in this world based upon the blind and the lame on… |
548545 |