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.
Here's the rhyme that'll get you to the Church of Nix-Nowhere. From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.
"The number one thing is that there isn't one thing, but a series of things." —Jeff De Luca, qtd. in Agile Software Development Ecosystems by James A. Highsmith
"For even things lost in a house abide, like forgotten sorrows and incipient dreams, and many household things are of purely sentimental value .... In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves. They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be burned." —Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping