following: that there are many rooms in the house 
of the intellect. And different kinds of thinkers 
occupy different kinds of rooms. Now if there’s a 
room for those thinkers who see something quite 
differently from everyone else, and form a 
question that people in the other rooms hadn’t 
thought about, in that sense we could say he was 
a great thinker. I don’t think we would call him a 
great scholar, because I don’t think he really had 
the patience to work through some of the 
implications of what he was saying, even in a book 
like The Gutenberg Galaxy . Basically these are 
quotes and allusions to the role that the printing 
press and movable type played in shaping people’s