CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, and a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
The coils of memory at the back of the exposed brain. In cross-section: ellipsis in the head. The triplet darknesses of recollection. The pins, the pining of nostalgia, the stab of regret. A world half-remembered like a hairdo of a goat at an almost-forgotten party, the barrettes and French-braided déjà voodoo of lives unburied, twilight-skinned, the zombie-like dusk of thought, neurons nostalgic for a future remembered. ...then forgotten before it has occurred.
Silesius of Rhodes says:
Zellweger voice: "You had me at 'deja voodoo'..."
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* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
it! In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a
narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.” Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com.
