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're honored that our definition of a Buddhist mantra in Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in "The Calming Effect of Imee Ooi’s Buddhist Music: from Mantra to Music and Meditation" by Loo Fung Ying, Loo Fung Chiat, and Tee Xiao Hao in the Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research.
That's our own face of blurred panic when there's a knock at the door. She's reassurred that ghosts don't knock, but of course they very famously do knock on doors and rap on tables. From Dark Shadows episode 1174.