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.
"I stared at the glowing tree and realized it was something related to the state of my consciousness" (Manuel J. Vargas, Awakening Home: Seeking Heaven on Earth).
"You slide the mask down the page until you see a new row of ___."
As we proved previously, it's a bizarre and wonderful phenomenon that whenever you see rows of asterisks in a book, they invariably illustrate the text either following or preceding them.
From Name That Cat by Doug Cassidy. A book of a thousand cat names is fine, though more useful would be tips on pinpointing a cat's secret name or names.
We analyzed this spooky hallway with our custom Uncanny Detector app and determined that though the lonesome figure on the steps is not a ghost, he is communing with a spirit. From Duke's 2002 yearbook.