Sounds like academics is your only hope. I had an old housemate who was getting his PhD at Berkeley to do just that. He became an expert on dead languages, reading everything from sagas written in Old Icelandic and Old Norse to stuff I can't even get my head around.
I gave you some from my extra bogus FB account that I use for crap sites that require FB accounts to use them.
Sounds like academics is your only hope. I had an old housemate who was getting his PhD at Berkeley to do just that. He became an expert on dead languages, reading everything from sagas written in Old Icelandic and Old Norse to stuff I can't even get my head around.
I think your uncle is addicted to the juice and not just the payoff, though. It's like religion to him - so telling him he's wasting his energy is like telling an imam that Mohammed was merely a character in a graphic novel called the Quran.
So all I suggest is that you get your inheritance in writing.
Nothing much. It was cool. He's basically a believer and a dreamer, and it's what he does. Can't steal a guy's dreams ya know, just like some people keep dreaming that we're signing Dzeko.