Papa Lynch's World War 2 Book

[Greg]

I was thinking maybe I shouldn't have posted.

[Drunk Monk]

This is like when you wrote up that interview for KFTC and the master said he grew his fingernail for scooping out eyeballs and you decided to omit that when it was the best part. 

[Greg]

I'm a wuss. What can I say?

Still posted it....

[Drunk Monk]

Still posted it....

[Greg]

It's one thing to be told the photo album has been found. It's quite another to have it in my hands. That's when I know it's real.

Cousin Chris texted me this morning to say the album has been shipped. I should have it by Friday. He also sent me a bunch of military records and other papers. Oh happy day.

[cranefly]

As Confucius said, "Never give up hope -- unless the situation is hopeless.  Then scream hysterically as long as you can."

[Greg]

Is that from the original Cantonese?

[cranefly]

Is that from the original Cantonese?

It's the result of translating to German, French, Swahili, then back to Cantonese.  So the answer is mostly yes.

Congrats on finally finding this photo album.  It was definitely looking like a lost cause.

FWIW, my reaction on seeing that one photo was, "Roomy enough they could nudge Mussolini aside and fit a certain Russian in there for company."

[Greg]

I have finished scanning my grandfather's Photo Album. It was 82 pages. There were about 1100 individual photographs. I'm uploading a Hi-Res copy of the book and it is 1.3gbs

Now time to go proof/edit the actual book.

[Greg]

Since I have finished scanning all the pictures, I'm working on the actual book. One of the things my father was adamant about with the book was not to change how it was written. The book should sound like my grandfather wrote it, to be in his vernacular. That's not going to happen. A lot of the sentence structures are very awkward.

I hear my father yell at me every time I make a change.

Fun Fact: Papa Lynch was a big fan of the word 'and'. I'm going remove about ten thousand 'ands' before I am done.

[Greg]

This is fun. I sent a proposal about Black Scorpion Diary™ to a publisher who specializes in Military memoirs. They have said they would like to see a few sample chapters. I am well chuffed. Now, I really need to finish the edit.

[Drunk Monk]

Nice!

That's a great title.

[thatguy]

Keep the rights to the documentary film...

--tg

[Greg]

Naturally.

Of course it just occurred to me that I don't know who owns the rights to the novel itself. I don't think finders-keepers is settled precedent in the US. I'll have to reach out to the other cousins and see what they think.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Don't ask other cousins. That's asking for a "committee", and nothing good comes from a committee. Just carry on.