When the Anagrammarian Strikes

Craig Conley, "The hug of Geof Huth" (2011)Today, Craig Conley sent me the simple gift of a gif, almost a gift in name and almost my name by its name, neither of which is the significance of this gift.

His was the gift of an anagram stylishly put together in Craig's manner, for he is a scholar of the strange and small and wondrous, and he is often focused on the small surprises of language. His original dictionary of one-letter words was my first contact with him many years ago, and it convinced me to stop work on my own dictionary of one-letter words, which I'd begun years before.

So his gift to me today is an anagram of my name, one I should have figured out myself, since I knew all the words hid within my name, but I never put them all together at once, I never realized they perfectly anagrammized my name. So this is the gift of coincidence, but more importantly the gift of coincidence found. His creation is in the finding and in the presentation and in the presentation of it.

And now all I need to do is be known by my hugging, so that my new epithet means something more than mere coincidence.

ecr. l'inf.