In his twenties, having fathered a son and known the love of a woman, Neville swore himself to celibacy and vegetarianism, doing seven years of violence to his body by these non-doings out of zealousness.
Date (happened)
between 1925 and 1934
unresolved
between 1925 and 1934
stated · preferred
Source
"at the tender age of twenty-odd, in my twenties", told in Drugs Dope Marijuana Lsd Alcohol Vegetarianism Etc (nid 2001)
before 1968
bound · probable
Reasoning
The vow after his first marriage is narrated as a completed past event, before its 1968 telling.
c. 1925
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 022)
Reasoning
Passage 539036: 'when we separated I took the vow of celibacy'; the first marriage (Oct 1923) ended in separation about 1924-25 (736, 15001) and chronology 18772 starts the seven years of celibacy and vegetarianism in 1925.
Told / reported
4 November 1968
estimated
Reasoning
The vow-of-celibacy story is recounted in lecture nid 1394, whose delivery is dated certain (1968-11-04) from two independent sources (a separate 1969-10-16 catalog claim for the same node is contradicted by this lecture's own internal dateline and is not used); the telling date is derived from the certain claim.
Sources
Source
- Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶19 (Seven years, at the tender age of twenty-odd, in my twenties, having born a son, and knowing the joy of the love of woman, and then by some peculiar thing to swear myself to celibacy; and then knowing the joys of food and to swear myself to being a veget…)