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.
We discovered this very cursed image in Primary Education, 1914. The girl's head appears to be transparent, and she watches for the New Year not as marked by the face of the grandfather clock but rather in the blackness of the other room.
"The ghostly hand which appeared on the New York photographer's carefully guarded plate." From Spiritism and Common Sense by Carlos María de Heredia, 1922.
Here is proof that photographs can cast spells and welcome spirits. From Ghost Image by Hervé Guibert, 2014. We are reminded of our own project about photographs that conjure ghosts: The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.
Many are skeptical of "spirit photography," but here is what we know: (1) I took a photo of something "then," (2) linear time is an illusion, (3) you're seeing me take that photo "now," (4) there is a oneness. Thank you for smiling.
This was entitled "2 Women" by the Boston Public Library, but our analysis finds that it's a single ghost that is bilocating. Photo by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.