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.
An inexplicable smell of sulphur is no doubt some imp of darkness passing on its way to soul-destroying and mischief-making. From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
Is the sense of the passage of time different for those in the past? "Perhaps their time is different from ours. Perhaps a moment of our time is a month or a year of theirs." From Dark Shadows episode 461.
We were researching what the night contains and shouldn't have been surprised to discover sheet ghosts. Do you agree that it is sheets ghosts who, in the final lines here, billow down lanes at dusk, like a mist of bleached portraits that don't exist, "who walk like a shivering laundry of shifted humanity"? From The Forceby Peter Redgrove, 1966. See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
Even adjusting for inflation, this is way more economical space travel than the elon-gated musk-rats offer in this strange modern time. From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.