and media that he did to language and to art, to 
poetry.

I guess the other thing I remember was that he was 
extremely sensitive to noise, he couldn’t bear any 
sound that was the least bit loud, and that was a 
result of his operation that he just had a few 
months before in New York City where he had a 
brain tumor removed in something like a seventeen-
hour operation which almost destroyed him, but 
that was a very memorable introduction to 
McLuhan.