questioned whether the fact that Christ had never 
written anything was a plus or a minus.

But to get the essence of McLuhan, The Gutenberg  
Galaxy  and Understanding Media  are certainly 
valuable works. I almost wish that a publisher 
would come out with a McLuhan reader in which 
they would take everything, not just from his 
published works, but his letters—where he was 
often very lucid and very easy to understand in 
explaining things—I wish they would take things 
from all that and put them in an index form, so if 
you wanted to see what McLuhan said about 
television, there would be all these snippets, and