Louie serves as Neville's tailor for nearly thirty years

Neville mentions that his tailor Louie has served him for almost thirty years and knows his taste well enough to talk him into new fabric on sight. He recalls one suit Louie persuaded him into that his wife found so unfashionable she wouldn't be seen with him in it, so he gave it away to someone else who loved it -- offering it as an example of finding equal joy in acquiring and in giving something up.
Date (happened)
between 1935 and May 1965
unresolved
  1. between 1935 and May 1965 relative · possible · preferred
    Source The Law: Self-Circumcision ¶41passage 533227 (lecture nid 1209), 'I go to my tailor -- he's been my tailor for almost thirty years now'
    Reasoning Counting back almost thirty years from the lecture's best-evidenced delivery date (1965-05-28, see field_told) places the start of the tailoring relationship circa 1935; written as a between range spanning from that start to the telling, since 'almost thirty years now' describes an ongoing relationship rather than a single dated incident.
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 28 May 1965 estimated
    Source The Law: Self-Circumcisiondelivery claims on lecture nid 1209: catalog #283 gives 1965-05-28 (certain, preferred), independently corroborated by the transcript's own chrome dateline (d3) '5/28/65', itself further corroborated by a Friday-lecture-night weekday check
    Reasoning This lecture carries three legacy catalog claims, but a prior lane's own investigation already downgraded two of them (1965-02-19 and a bare 1968) to possible, explicitly noting neither is witnessed by this transcript, while the third (1965-05-28) is independently corroborated by the transcript's own chrome dateline and a weekday check (Friday, matching Neville's known Monday/Friday lecture nights that year). Preferring the corroborated, unrefuted date.
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