WeAreGoingToDie
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Journal Timeline Explaination & Review
Just picked up the journal, VERY excellent! If you're still considering a purchase, don't listen to those saying it's too short or looks like it's for kids. 160 full color pages are quite a lot, and the little touches such as elastic band, cover stitching and tattered and torn pages are very nice. I really enjoyed the fabricated objects of the era, such as matchbooks, fliers and clippings. While there are no loose objects (objects are printed on the page), I'm sure if they WERE loose the price of the journal would be MUCH higher. I give it a 5/5
As for the discrepancy with Old Indy having a copy of journal in YIJ Chronicles while the Lost Journal lost its tattered cover ages ago and was just recovered, my theory is this:
Shortly after the events of TLC (1938), Indy's journal was becoming to tattered and worn to continue to be used. So he removed a majority of his early years (leaving select pages in the Lost Journal for reasons of his own) and rebound them in a replacement journal that resembled his old journal and kept it safe for later studies and recounting memories. This replacement journal is what was seen in the YIJC. The lost journal was rebound in a journal reminiscent of his fathers diary, complete with a signature on the cover and elastic band. This journal continued to be written in and used up until 1957 when obtained by the soviets. Sometime in the 1990's the diary was returned to Dr. Jones and he returned the early years pages (1908-1918) to the replacement YIJ journal.
Just picked up the journal, VERY excellent! If you're still considering a purchase, don't listen to those saying it's too short or looks like it's for kids. 160 full color pages are quite a lot, and the little touches such as elastic band, cover stitching and tattered and torn pages are very nice. I really enjoyed the fabricated objects of the era, such as matchbooks, fliers and clippings. While there are no loose objects (objects are printed on the page), I'm sure if they WERE loose the price of the journal would be MUCH higher. I give it a 5/5
As for the discrepancy with Old Indy having a copy of journal in YIJ Chronicles while the Lost Journal lost its tattered cover ages ago and was just recovered, my theory is this:
Shortly after the events of TLC (1938), Indy's journal was becoming to tattered and worn to continue to be used. So he removed a majority of his early years (leaving select pages in the Lost Journal for reasons of his own) and rebound them in a replacement journal that resembled his old journal and kept it safe for later studies and recounting memories. This replacement journal is what was seen in the YIJC. The lost journal was rebound in a journal reminiscent of his fathers diary, complete with a signature on the cover and elastic band. This journal continued to be written in and used up until 1957 when obtained by the soviets. Sometime in the 1990's the diary was returned to Dr. Jones and he returned the early years pages (1908-1918) to the replacement YIJ journal.
