Neville reflects on his parents' deaths as physical inheritance

He gives his parents' ages at death — his mother at 61, his father at 85, who drank heavily while she did not — as the physical inheritance he wears but can modify.
Date (happened)
before 1971
unresolved
  1. before 1971 bound · possible
    Source The Eternal Body ¶10qualifying source passages 553398; telling lecture nids 2121
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [553398] belong to telling lecture nids [2121]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Told / reported
  1. 1971 stated · probable
    Source The Eternal BodyThe Eternal Body (nid 2121), telling 2121-2, told 1971
  2. 1971 estimated
    Reasoning Passage 553398 is genuinely about this event and is carried by lecture node 2121. The authoritative L7 adjudication in the packet establishes the lecture's surviving bare-year delivery date as 1971 at certain, based on two agreeing catalogue rows plus independent weekday-arithmetic corroboration; the rejected 1970 row is refuted. Because this told claim is inferred from the lecture node, its type is estimated, never stated.
Sources

Source

  • The Eternal Body ¶10 (So my mother died at 61, my father died at 85 — he drank heavily and she didn’t drink)