Ben tells Neville of a vision in which Neville, in a blue suit, stood at the top of a hill handing out fruit to pale people who looked ready to faint; Neville interprets the blue robe as truth and the fruit as the truth he was feeding them.
Date (happened)
before 1967
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [549218] 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
10 March 1967
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 549218 is Neville answering Ben's question about a vision of Neville feeding fruit to fainting people; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 1923) is dated 1967-03-10 by three independently sourced exact/certain delivery claims, so the telling inherits that date at certain confidence.
Sources
Source
- The Riddle ¶39 (Well, Ben, if you saw me dressed in blue and I was passing out fruit, what I was giving was the truth. Blue is truth. When I’m robed in blue, I am speaking the truth.)