might be taking because of inside information I have of where he’s been and where he’s gone. I think. OK. It’s a Mutt and Jeff act that we sometimes do. Anybody remember Mutt and Jeff?

McLuhan: ‘Mit me Mutt.’ It’s one of the expressions in the old comic story.

Forsdale: Mutt and Jeff is a comic strip in which Mutt is, or Jeff is a short one, and Mutt is, the other one, is a lanky one. Well, let us begin now our dialogue. Marshall, it seems to me, in looking back over your work, which is quite numerous indeed; fourteen, fifteen books; a thousand magazine articles; a thousand speeches. The basic thrust of the thing has been, it seems to me, to invite our attention to the necessity of looking at the form of media