----- Original Message ----- From: <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> To: "Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> Cc: <dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info>; "'Dragaera Mailing List'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:10 AM Subject: RE: Jhereg, and Vlad's history of revivification,a question for SKZB > >Once can mean 'only one time', but can also mean some (unspecified) time > in > >the past. Which is to say the statements "I was killed once." and "I was > >killed more than once." are not mutually exclusive. > > > >http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=once > > Even more to the point, on re-reading the segment in questions, Vlad is > actually describing a very specific circumstance in relation to the three > major types of assassinations, so while he may have only been killed in > the "first, cheapest, least permanent" manner only "once", he may well > have been killed in one of the other manners as well, also. (Of course, > this begs the question of how he survived these more permanent forms of > death--but luckily, we, in fact, have the answers to that very question in > /Yendi/.) > > So it would appear I have nearly resolved the apparent conflict myself. > Just shows what you can do if you read carefully enough, I suppose. > > Majikjon > > > Or he may have been bragging to the metal box. Jeff