Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 4 + birth 1905 = 1909. Told 1 time (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.

As a boy of five or six he would know in advance which night it would come, and lying in the big bed beside his brothers he would become an infinite ocean and also the wave on its back, tossing and ca

Neville describes the golden light and the numberless little spermatozoa-like lights he can see at will, present even as he speaks, which he says he has been seeing since he was a boy and which match

As a little child Neville wept before a huge painting of the massacre of the innocents that his mother had hanging in the living room, among other religious paintings she owned.

Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 5 + birth 1905 = 1910. Told 1 time (1967). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.

As a boy of five or six his mother gave him two candies, one for himself and one for his brother Carl, and he ate both and never told Carl.

As a little boy his father let him go every week with his brothers to see the old silent pictures, where the reels broke and the lights went out.

Neville recalls his boyhood in Barbados, watching children shipped in from the other islands for the school year, crying themselves to sleep from homesickness while their parents left them there out o

As a small boy in Barbados, Neville and three other boys rode a male donkey each Sunday to his grandmother's for a coin, and he spent his penny paying a man with a female donkey to give them a wild ri

His father, who had a butcher shop, gave him one and six for the pictures plus an extra threepence he claimed was for candy; instead he paid a big barefoot man called Mashmouth threepence every Saturd

Neville recalls how, as a boy, the family charged everything and had goods sent home on approval, his mother returning shoes and clothes that did not fit or look right.

At school in New York City, in an elocution class of forty, his teacher brought him forward and made him an example of what not to do, telling the others he would never earn a living using his voice —

As a small child his father promised him a huge wonderful golden nothing if he would do something; he rushed to do it, heard only the word golden, and was duly given nothing — a lesson that what canno

As a boy in Barbados he and three brothers rode a gig behind a huge jack donkey to their grandmother's every Sunday; she gave each a coin, and he spent his penny every time paying a man to race ahead

In his childhood home of ten children, ducks were fattened on unsold fish and had to be caged and fed on meal, corn and sour milk for ten days before eating; told by his mother to put ducks away, Nevi

He recounts his boyhood on Barbados, a sugar-cane island where the manure gathered over two years was spread on the fields in an operation they called broadcasting, long before radio existed.

As a boy in Barbados, in a family of nine boys and a girl, he was told by his mother to pen up ducks two weeks before they were to be eaten and change their fish diet to corn, wheat and milk; when he

As a boy in Barbados he ran paper chases around the whole island without tiring, and contrasts that with barely being able to run a block now.

Walking through Harlem, kitchen smells of okra, coconut oil and plantains transport him instantly back to his childhood in Barbados.

As a boy, years before puberty, Neville had a recurring monthly experience of being both the ocean and a breaking wave, tossing himself into the sky and catching himself as he fell; he knew in advance

As a schoolchild, and later in his mature years, he read Psalm 2:7 without it ever occurring to him that this scriptural character had any relation to him.

As a small boy in Barbados, coming naked out of the sea toward the rock where he had left his clothes, he was startled when a black fisherman mending his nets called out that he was going to castrate

Neville says he was born and raised in a Protestant Christian environment and was taught as a child that the nativity was a literal historical event two thousand years ago — which he now says is not t

Neville's first vision, which came to him as a boy: standing among exalted beings in the presence of the risen Lord, he was asked what the greatest thing in the world was, answered automatically in Pa

Neville first heard the Bible orally as a child: his mother taught it to him before he could read, then he was taught it at school and heard the story from the teacher at Sunday school.