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.
Heimdall rides his horse over the rainbow bridge and blows his horn to warn the gods of the end of the world. From Tales from the Far North by Maria Klugh, 1909.
Uh-oh: "Eventually, the world will die out and become a dry barren thing with no life upon it." From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
"(There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." From "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke.