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, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. 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.
"Amen! Thoreau said that an author should stay on his side of a high wall and throw his books over to the world on its side." From If: Turning Points in the Careers of Notable People by James Breen, 1901.
The doctor said a character is quickly dying because she has lost the will to live, but when you visit the sickroom, don't mention her condition to her because she has no idea that she's lost the will to fight for another day. From Dark Shadows episode 1233.
"Your heart is protesting -- when work-time lacks interest, when playtime lacks pleasure, when life becomes lifeless." From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
A transition between two angles of the Collinwood estate creates strange hybrid architecture. "But something worse than nightmare grips the final dark." From Dark Shadows episode 250.