Neville, a man of the twentieth century, had David — who supposedly lived 1,000 BC — stand before him, with time completely collapsed, and knew himself to be his father.
Date (happened)
before 1972
bound · possible
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1963 (1972)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1963, delivered 1972 (that claim's confidence: possible, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
1900
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `certain`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1972` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1963). Nothing deleted, no year invented. || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900-refute: REFUTED. This event involves Neville himself and he was born 1905-02-19 (event 950 delta 9, `certain` + `preferred`), so 1900 is not merely unsupported — it is impossible. The event now displays no date, which is the honest state: the `before` bound appended by v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900 remains and is what is actually known. Row kept, not deleted.
Told / reported
c. 1972
estimated · possible
Reasoning
Passage 550240 is Neville describing on the platform David standing before him across a collapsed 3,000 years; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 1963) has no firm delivery claim, only the chrome's own hedged circa-1972 guess, so the telling inherits that same weak circa/possible date rather than being stated with any more confidence than the source supports.
Sources
Source
- False Gods ¶36 (And I, in the 20th century, have lost my memory so far back that someone who supposedly lived 1,000 BC stands before me. And there is a complete collapse of time. There is no such thing as 3,000 years difference. I am his father, and he preceded me by 3,…)