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.
What exacty is happening here? Well, "It's always happening more than it ever has been happening" (The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones). "It's always happening. But be still now! They're coming up, and all we can do is to keep them in the dark as well as we can" (William Dean Howells, "The Unexpected Guests").
"I know regretfully that for me it is too late and there will never be a return to the bliss of ignorance. I didn't want to know as much as I've learned. I wish I could forget what I now know, but I can't."