25 Aug
2017
25 Aug
'17
7:18 a.m.
On Aug 24, 2017 19:35, "nIqolay Q" <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote: You're conflating two meanings of the English word "once": "happening one time" and "at some time in the past". (The two meanings are probably related etymologically, but they're distinct now.) This reminds me of the use of a similar expression in the Jātaka tales. "We were brothers once (one time, in one of our many former lives)." -- De'vID