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.
"The point bears repeating here. The issue is not whether mistakes are made, but whether anyone learns from them." —Morgan W. McCall et al., The Lessons of Experience
Gary Barwin, Hugh Thomas and Craig Conley use their source material only as a starting point, reworking Kafka’s writings into "imaginary parables” and invented aphorisms. The man himself would appreciate their explanation: "Sometimes this means keeping the cage and replacing the bird.”
"Now, please don't take this the wrong way, we value your work immensely, but we've all been a little worried about you, and, well ... we think it might be good for you to get some rest." —Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov