Neville says the best thing that ever happened to him was being fired from Macy's during the depression, since staying would have left him a captain of the elevators.
Date (happened)
between 1923 and 1924
unresolved
between 1923 and 1924
estimated · doubtful · preferred
Reasoning
If this is the same Macy's departure as E3 (merely misremembered decades later as 'during the depression'), E3's age-chain estimate applies; kept doubtful since the manner (fired vs quit) still conflicts. (anchors: E3)
between 1929 and 1939
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Contradicted by passage 141373 (Broome), which places Neville's Macy's departure and dancing career before his 1925 sailing to England, and by E3's four independent tellings dating the quit c.1923-1924 -- years before the Depression (1929+)
Told / reported
1 December 1959
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 2076 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 2076 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1959-12-1 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1959-12-1 certain; 1968-11-4 refuted; 1959-12-1 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1968-11-04 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
4 November 1968
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 2076, 1968-11-4) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1959-12-1. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Foundation Stone Imagination ¶20 (The best thing that ever happened to me was when I was fired from Macy’s during the depression. I might be captain of the elevators if I had stayed there.)