Just what was so legitimate about this thesis is, even at
this late date, rather unclear. It's hard to say that a study was conducted.
Rather, an intensive series of reflections on how this project grew and
took shape somehow became acceptable. The university is, of course, in
flux. Not only cyberspace and the internet are causing it to change the
way it sees itself and the accepted definition of legitimate academic endeavours.
Post-modernism probably has exerted a great deal of influence on this as
well. Be that as it may, I can only be humbly thankful to my advisors who
not only identified this project (which in its
native
form appears to be quite foreign from anything academic) as a fitting
one for a thesis, but who also were able to identify my own difficulties
in focusing on a topic and were able to expand the boundaries of the term
legitimate in order to include me.