critics, and read him. But pause at the threshold. 
To penetrate the meaning of his work, it is 
necessary to join in the act of exploration, as he 
did, tacking between texts and the world. Testing, 
testing. Here is where the gloriously laborious task 
of translating insight into understanding unfolds.

“The academic coverage is only beginning for my 
stuff.” (Letters , (1987) p.505 [1974])

For several years now I have been excavating 
McLuhan’s formidable body of work, and retracing 
his sources. * The fundamental clue to navigating 
by the lights of McLuhan is to read him on his own