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.
Thomas McFarland has written of an "interpenetration of livingness and dyingness as contained in the very nature of autumn." Here's what it looks like. From Salem's 1981 yearbook.
It's been said that the tunnel of light seen by the dying is something of a trick, a trap door back into material existence. In a yearbook, it leads to a second degree program. From Elizabethtown's 1980 yearbook.
"Things that might have been if I had wiser eyes." Use your now-wiser eyes, in conjunction with the orb of the streetlight in the middle distance, to travel through time or the astral plane. From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.