Mid-morning. You took the boys to school and
dropped off Kim’s car at Toyota for warranty repair. Presently you are sitting
in the lot next to Panera North in Westerville basically at the corners of
State and Maxwell waiting for Carol who is having her hair done with Mary Lou
at Pro Choice. Yesterday after approving the final proof you noticed the table
of contents was not correct when it was correct the first time. This was an
irritation but presently you don’t care because though some chapter titles were
wrong, when tapped they led to the right chapter. – Amorella
1011 hours. This is fine with me. It
is funny in a way because the last few chapters have the same title,
“Happenstance” and basically that’s what the error is, happenstance. Nice
little joke. It is too much trouble to tell BookBaby about it and it is just as
well. GMG.One is on its own now.
You
are having a problem with the generations in Grandma Four. Let’s go with what
you have at the cemetery in the chapter. – Amorella
1020 hours. I knew I should have had
all the generations on Reunion 10, but I don’t. I’ll see what I can do with the
cemetery selection.
2233
hours. I have worked up the genealogy on chapters 1 through 4 and part of 5 on
and off all day. Tedious work but I want to make sure I have the genealogy
correct from Criteria and Renaldo right up through the direct connections with
both the husbands and wives Robert/Richard and Connie/Cyndi.
This
is a major point in the story – the twisting and turnings of the genetic lines
royal and common and how there is ‘a seeming uncanny sublime and perhaps
unorthodox order that makes its way to the surface from time to time through
family connections finding themselves with family connections over the centuries.
This is a supposition moving from hearsay to hypothesis as far as Merlyn’s
dreams are concerned. The genealogical trail has to appear valid even if it is
fiction.
2304
hours. Carol and I had a good time at Max and Erma’s on Maxtown with Patti
Pringle. She had run off 300 poems Bob had written and gave them to me. I am free to
use any of them in my Merlyn books. I got Bob’s permission during his last week
of life and Patti gives me her blessing to use what I will. I promised her I
would use them only in the context that Bob wrote them, that is, the poem has
to make sense within the Brother’s segment as the others do. The three of us
meet as friends and in Bob’s memory. He will have been dead three years within
a week. I miss him in my mind but not in my heart where a part of my old friend
still resides. – rho
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