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.
"Each child came to the fairy, and said: 'Good -evening, Meadow-sweet." From The Garden of Childhood by Alice M. Chesterton and illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley, 1905.
"Madame Pharaoh went into a trance and told him things he was sure were hidden from all the world: things —ma foi!—that were ab-so-lute-ly true!" From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917.