He says he has no desire to live at San Simeon; trying earthly things in the belief they would keep him here forever is far back in his own experience, and his needs are now little.
Date (happened)
a way, way back
unresolved
a way, way back
relative · probable
before 1967
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [549200] belong to telling lecture nids [1923]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1967 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1967 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 10 March 1967
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1967 to before 1967-03-10.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1923 (certain delivery 1967-03-10); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1967`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1967-03-10 on nid 1923 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Told / reported
10 March 1967
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 549200 is Neville himself saying, in first person, that he has no desire to live at San Simeon and that trying earthly things for permanence is far back in his own experience; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 1923, is dated 1967-03-10 by three independently sourced, mutually agreeing exact/certain delivery claims (plus a consistent coarser circa-March-1967 claim). The telling inherits that converged exact/certain precision and confidence.
Sources
Source
- The Riddle ¶21 (Close tonight and live as well as I now live, for I have no desire to live at San Simeon. That is a way in the past of me, a way, way back, when one tried earthly things and thought it would keep him here forever.)