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.
Meister Eckhart said that "Heaven is at all points equidistant from earth." How far, exactly? "My heaven is always only an inch away from the world" (Collage of Seoul by Jae Newman, 2015).
Here we learn that "if a ghost's head were suddenly twisted off from his shoulders, and were at once stuck fast to some other part of his filmy frame, especially to one of his hips or thighs, his power for mischief was gone for ever." From The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton, 1897.
"'What are you standing there gaping for?' screamed the dwarf." From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.