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.
"They've always classed paranoia as a mental illness. But it isn't! There's no lack of contact with reality--on the contrary, the paranoid is directly related to reality. He's a perfect empiricist. Not cluttered with ethical and moral-cultural inhibitions. The paranoid sees things as they really are; he's actually the only sane man." —Philip K. Dick, "Null-O," The Philip K. Dick Reader
Here's what it looks like when your strangler offers you a way to save yourself by inviting you to "Call on your false god!" From Dark Shadows episode 999.
"The black eagle found the river fairy seated upon a poplar leaf." From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.