His father sat every morning after breakfast in a West Indian Berbice chair with his feet up and eyes half shut, seeing the day as he wanted it and carrying on mental conversations with the men he would meet; his brother Victor did the same, and the family made millions in Barbados.
Date (happened)
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [549318] belong to telling lecture nids [1929]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 6 December 1971
bound · probable
Why
Refines the existing year-level phase4 L6a bound; does not replace it.
Reasoning
The father's and Victor's rehearsal habit is a lifelong pattern described from the platform, not a single occurrence, so it gets a bound from the telling rather than an exact date. The telling lecture's most specific and well-corroborated delivery bound runs through 1971-12-06 (probable), which sharpens the existing year-only 'before 1971' safe-envelope bound to day precision while remaining safely inclusive of every candidate delivery date on the node.
Told
c. November 1971
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Neville describes his father's and Victor's habit from the platform during this lecture. The three delivery claims on node 1929 converge on November 1971 (d2's range extends only a few days past it), so circa November 1971 is the coarsest telling date every candidate substantially supports.
Sources
Source
- Strong Imagination ¶33 (my father did that: every morning after breakfast he would sit down in what we call the Berbice chair, and put his feet out on the arms of a chair — it’s a chair made in the West Indies — and there he would simply, with his eyes partly shut, he would see…)