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 voices of people whose reality is far away, something in another life, part of another fable, just as your reality is part of another fable, and all of it part of the only fable, and the only history." From A Special Announcement by William Saroyan, in One Hundred Non-Royalty Radio Plays, 1941.
You know about live television and radio broadcasts, but in the early 1900s even magazine fiction was presented live and "vitalized." From Live Stories, 1919.