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Originally Posted by fresnelly
I know you can't start a story "Once on a time..."
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Tell that to Winnie the Pooh author, A. A. Milne, who wrote a book entitled Once on a Time....
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As an aside: language and how usage evolves is kinda funny. For example, we all know that (now cheap) phrasing used in mysteries and thrillers: "...when all of a sudden...."
What if I told you that older texts used something different? Try this on for size: "...when of a sudden...." The all crept in there and now all of us use and know it.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-17-2010 at 12:03 PM..
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