The previous night Neville spoke at a salon where a couple questioned him: a man sneered at his claim to have seen God, and the man's wife asked whether he was Isaiah and then argued that Christ's cry 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' came from Luke; most of the gathering was disturbed by his teaching that God is man.
Date (happened)
26 February 1964
unresolved
26 February 1964
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
Both 'last night' references (545518, 545523) come from the same lecture/telling, so they are one source, not independent corroboration.
Reasoning
Lecture nid=1820 has a certain, triply-corroborated delivery date of 1964-02-27 (two catalog entries plus the transcript's own chrome dateline). Passages 545518 and 545523 both place the salon talk 'last night' relative to that lecture, i.e. the evening before: 1964-02-26. This matches the event's own title and the conclusion already reached by prior npr rows 23559 and 59607 that this salon is distinct from node 1820's own lecture. Confidence held at probable rather than the ceiling because 'last night' is spoken shorthand, not a printed date, even though it is repeated consistently across two passages from the same telling.
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Told / reported
27 February 1964
estimated
Reasoning
The passages recounting the salon (545518, 545523) belong to lecture nid=1820, whose delivery date is certain and independently corroborated three times (catalog #200, merged catalog #773, and the transcript's own chrome dateline '2/27/64'); that is when Neville told this account.
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Sources
Source
- All Are Human ¶21 (And so this chap said to me, “You mean to tell me that you actually saw God?” I said, “Yes, I saw God.”)