A:  I don’t know if I can judge that. Marshall always 
struck me as being exceptional. Not just because 
of what he was saying. I think it’s the level of the 
plane of existence that he had settled in once and 
for all. I range from the familial, the professional, 
the chummy friends, all the way to moments of 
illumination, and reflection. I see—I don’t want to 
be falsely modest about it—on a fairly high level. I 
have never seen Marshall step below the fairly high 
level business. That was the lowest depth for him. 
What I call fairly high-level of thinking, and 
involvement with reality that I am experiencing—
that was the ground floor for McLuhan. He could 
only see up from there. Below, he was incompetent.