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.
Only eight lives of a cat may be scandal-free, for in its ninth incarnation it roams to witches' midnight orgies. From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
What is there to think about? What is there to say? What is there to understand? What is there to be afraid of? From Dark Shadows episodes 300, 21, 344, and 591.
You can't judge a book by its covers. We don't know which sacred geometry to believe. But you can't blame the publishers for tapping different markets. From Transpersonal Psychologies, edited by Charles Tart.
Here's the heptagonal sofa that came to us in a Moorish-Appalacian-Boho-Retrotech vision. The mirage on the back panel took six weeks to wood burn. The little cabin niche on the left side is an optical illusion, only an inch deep. The lamp is from Lithuania, and the pendant from Morocco. The Bigfoot fur pillows are from Tibet.
Two ghosts, a couple of goblins, and an assortment of other ghouls were minding their own business at the cemetery about midnight. From Current Sauce, 1963.