McLuhan: But they also had—voyages to the moon was a popular form of literature in antiquity. They have actually titles of stories, “Voyages to the Moon.” Well, I suppose you could say it retrieved the fictional reality: voyages to the moon. It translated the fiction into reality.

Forsdale: It also retrieved, one would have to go back and do this pretty systematically, pretty left hemisphere, but it also retrieved a forgotten feeling about the earth.

McLuhan: Oh yes.

Forsdale: As we’re now headlong looking at what’s happening around us here.

McLuhan: It’s precious and it’s ecological. The sense that