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My sister is insisting on using sentence structure in the title of her doctoral thesis, and I am Chief No in the camp of disapprovement. Sentence structure, as in the title of this post, means that the only capitalization is the first letter. Proper titles contain capitalization for all the main words; so that the reader knows its an important word, that its so important a word that many other words were needed to describe it in a very important collection of works called a doctoral thesis. With sentence structure, only the first word appears important, and although that may work here on my blog, because for example in this case the capitalized word is the most important word. In my case that word is “it.” By the way, right now, you are not reading a doctoral thesis. This will not be about chicken.

When I think of a doctoral thesis, what comes to mind is the culmination of a lifetime of learning. There is a doctoral thesis in all of us, and just like our names, it needs to be capitalized. My doctoral thesis would be titled, “3rdarm.biz, Not Good Enough,” and I would constantly update and revise mine. Its possible, right here right now, that you are reading my doctoral thesis. If so, I better change the title of this post, because the sentence structure just doesn’t properly convey my words’ great inertia that I whisk like flour to the eggs of my verbs. Yes, that makes sense, and that’s the reason my sister should consider re-capitalizing the title of her doctoral thesis, that is actually a doctoral thesis. My doctoral thesis, depending on which metaphor you want to go with, is either a blog or a brownie.

Either way, I finished the cover artwork that my sister commissioned from me. She wanted to use a lithograph by the Dutch painter M.C. Escher, The Three Worlds. Its a picture of a body of water on which leaves float. A fish can be seen under the water and the surface is a reflection of trees on the opposite shore. Those are the three perspectives that the title refers to. The holders of the Escher work’s copyright wanted to charge her one hundred fifty euro for the right to use the lithograph on her thesis’ cover. She knows I am proficient with the open source imaging suite called The Gimp, and decided to allow me create something inspired by that print instead of paying the money. Brother bear hates money, loves burritos, and did a good job for free. Here is what I came up with, titled, “The Four Worlds.”

The fourth world in my picture is time. I used a stock picture of a dead, submerged tree trunk and branches for the underwater perspective, which is the future for the tree. The tree reflected is alive and the leaves floating on the surface are the past. The mystery is why even with four perspectives we still don’t actually see the tree. Yes, that makes sense, and now I get a byline in my sister’s doctoral thesis, which means that for the first time we are getting published together. I hope the press doesn’t ask me any questions about the content of my sister’s thesis. I have no idea what its all about, but I know this. Don’t let the sentence structure of the title fool you! The thing is important and it makes my sister a genius doctor of whom I’m very proud. That its cover artwork was created by yours truly is like WRITING THE TITLE IN ALL CAPS.