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.
"I've often heard the moon declare that shooting stars are growing there." From Beyond the Mountain by Sarah Stokes Halkett and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1917.
"'Perhaps,' said the little man, "having lived forty centuries, I may be old enough to advise a young man of twenty-three." From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.