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 analyzed this photograph with our custom Uncanny Detector app to see if the figure contemplating the ruins is a ghost. Apparently, he wasn't a ghost when the photograph was taken, but he is one now. From the University of the South's 1963 yearbook.
"Back of hand and shrivelled apple." From "Photographer of a Model Moon, James Nasmyth, 1808-1890" by Terry Crosswhite, in Northlight #7 (Arizona State University).
It's all too rare to see a student's mirror-world double appear in a yearbook. It's even rarer for the student and his mirror-world double to be up a tree (not to mention wearing matching capes). Due to the marvelous light flare, we'll never know what one of his faces looked like. From Guilford's 1976 yearbook.
So refreshing to see a knight simply relaxing on the patio, not formally posing like in all the other photos. One also recalls this knight doing a handstand for the fun of it.