Humotropy » The Grand Work
After the private session of my thesis defense, after I had waited paitently outside while my committee debated my future, AFTER they had told me that I had passed, they had one additional question for me: what’s the deal with my frontispiece?
The frontispiece is the left-sided page in a published book which faces the right-sided title page. In a thesis, this is a completely useless concept since pages are printed single-sided only, but never-the-less it is an option for those of us writing a thesis. In practice, it can contain anything: a word, an drawing, a phrase, an elaborate engraving, etc. I was certainly not going to let such an opportunity pass me by and I lost several hours of work searching for the image I wanted on my frontispiece. I found perfection. It’s a long post, so I’ll put it behind the jump.