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.
"The Muses are not the only pagan divinities who preserved their influence over mankind in modern times; for every age has its sirens, and every siren her votaries." From Wonder of the World!! Fairburn's Account of the Mermaid, 1822.
"Not a hundred yards from him was a sight he had never beheld in the wildest of his dreams—a ship rising without a sound out of the depths of the sea." From Wayside Tales, 1922.