Neville recounts a letter he received the past week from a friend in the audience who, sitting in a barber's chair, imagined the fourth-chair barber to the top of his profession; the barber bought out the shop and then won prizes at a San Francisco contest, and the friend has told Neville in advance of contests to come in Southern California, Miami and Brussels.
Date (happened)
April 1968
stated · preferred
Source
'Last month' in lecture nid 1128, whose surviving preferred delivery is 1968-05-03.
Why
Corrects stale relative-date arithmetic after L7 lecture adjudication.
Reasoning
Passage 530943 dates the barber's contest desire to 'last month'. The lecture's surviving preferred and certain delivery is 1968-05-03, after L7 refuted the competing 1964-01-20 catalogue row. Calendar subtraction therefore yields April 1968. The older December 1963 event row reflects the refuted lecture chronology and remains only as append-only provenance.
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this past week
relative · probable
Source
"this past week", told in Every Natrual Effect (nid 1945)
December 1963
stated · refuted
Source
"Last month", told in The Spiritual Cause (nid 1128)
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 041): Based on a since-refuted 1964-01-20 catalogue date for lecture 1128.
Told
3 May 1968
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 548795 is Neville himself sharing, in first person, a letter he received that week about a barber who imagined himself to the top of his profession; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 1914, is dated 1968-05-03 by its sole delivery claim (exact/probable, source-header dateline). The telling inherits that same precision and confidence.
3 May 1968
stated
Source
The Spiritual Cause (nid 1128), telling 1128-0, told 1968-05-03
3 May 1968
estimated · probable
Source
delivery claim on lecture nid=1945 'Every Natural Effect' -- sibling-transcript identification (54.5%/52.1% mutual 8-gram containment with node 1914, plus shared evening-specific anecdotes and a back-reference to Monday-dated node 1998), estimated/exact/probable, sole claim
Reasoning
Witness passage:549646 (the barber-letter story) sits in lecture nid=1945 'Every Natural Effect', dated 1968-05-03 by its sole, unconflicted delivery claim. The told claim inherits that date and confidence exactly, no tighter.
Sources
Source
- Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶1 (Now let me share with you what was given to me this past week in the form of a letter (he’s here tonight). His father was a low man on the totem pole when he first encountered him.)
- Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶1 (Hearing the desire expressed, my friend imagined the man had reached the top of his profession. Within a year the barber had bought the shop and had moved to the first chair!)
- Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶1 (Now let me share with you what was given to me this past week in the form of a letter. He’s here tonight. His barber was the low man on the totem pole when he first encountered him.)