“Oh, of course,” as if he thought of it forever—
“the medium is the message.” Well, that’s the way 
he discovered stuff. He would listen to what you 
were saying and then he would pronounce upon it. 
And he loved that game of pronouncing as if this is 
something he had always known, and the world 
always knew, and you were the slow one to 
recognize it. When in fact, he was the one 
constantly discovering it and that was one of the 
reasons he loved television so much because he 
was constantly finding stuff, unexpected stuff. 
And he watched a lot of television. He was 
contemptuous of it in some respects for its lack of 
intellectual coherence, but he really loved the