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.
C. J. Jung (not to be confused with C. G. Jung?) said, "Fulfill something you are able to fulfill, rather than run after something you never will achieve." From Franklin College's 1974 yearbook.
On the importance of "useless" books to exist for the "'queer folk' who no longer set much store by the uses, aims, and meaning of present-day 'civilization.'" From C. G. Jung's marvelous introduction to The Tibetan Book Of The Dead.