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.
"A shadowy, mist-veiled form, the dumfounded lad did see." From The Joyous Travelers by Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1919.
"A large cloud of mist that floated over the river, now parted into what appeared to Halcyon to be three shadowy forms." From Halcyon and Asphodel by A.L.H.A., 1885.
"The mist has gone by, dear love! The mist has quite gone by!" From The Grey Man by Samuel Rutherford Crockett and illustrated by John Seymour Lucas, 1896.