Professor Oddfellow's Forgotten Wisdom (Volume 2) [Paperback]

Craig Conley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 2008

In this second volume containing over 75 one-of-a-kind diagrams, eccentric visionary Professor Oddfellow presents his offbeat "Forgotten Wisdom." Entries include:

• How to Find a Needle in a Haystack (Every Time)
• Decipher Your Dog's Character by the Spots
• A Coastal Business with Cats
• John Venn's Rorashach Test
• Blots Before the Eyes Chart
• The Eating Habits and Tastes of Goethe
• One Hundred Ways I've Failed to Boil Water
• When Should I Hug?
• You're Not the Dummy

This book makes a perfect gift for wordplay enthusiasts, armchair linguists, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, or anyone with a sly sense of humor.

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About the Author

Craig Conley, "America's most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation" (Encarta), is a curator, benefactor, philosopher, author, music producer, and documentarian. A former college teacher of writing and literature, he left academia to pursue his research into one-letter words, two-fold deities, and ancient Zen versions of Rock-Paper-Scissors. In addition to his Magic Words: A Dictionary and One-Letter Words: A Dictionary, he has written several educational titles, including four editions of the textbook Human Diversity: A Guide for Understanding, published by McGraw-Hill. His latest documentary, "David Lynch and His Precursors," traces the avant-garde filmmaker's influence through time, to movies that predate Lynch's own body of work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (July 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438281935
• ISBN-13: 978-1438281933
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,127,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CRAIG CONLEY has been called "a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure" (Clint Marsh), "America's most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation" (Encarta), a "language fanatic" (Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams), and a "cult hero" (Publisher's Weekly). 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 ONE-LETTER WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by HarperCollins, and his MAGIC WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by Weiser Books.