worked. So that was one area of his intellectual 
development.

He wrote The Mechanical Bride  in 1951. He met 
Harold Innis about 1949-50. They didn’t get along at 
all. They had a fight about the Spanish Inquisition. 
McLuhan was a Catholic convert and Innis was an 
atheist. They picked that theme and they didn’t 
agree on it obviously. I would have liked to have 
been there. So they didn’t connect really, except 
that one day McLuhan had found that Innis had 
put the MB on the reading list of his students, this 
was a year before he died. He felt that if a man put 
his book on the reading list of his students, I