thrown off of it, and the school of Adorno as well, 
and I think that we have to turn back, because 
there’s another name I want to mention in line with 
McLuhan. That is Parker Tyler. Parker Tyler, who 
was gay, was to me the greatest theorist of film 
that this country has ever seen. Now, it’s very 
interesting that he is not mentioned. Someone who 
was very close to him in sensibility, who has 
written less copious works, Pauline Kael, again 
someone who writes about the sensory 
appreciation of literature. So I think that what we 
need now in the 1990s is a return to all kinds of 
discarded figures. We have to have a clearing off 
of the cultural stage, it seems to me. We have to