Q:  How did you first encounter McLuhan, and how 
has he affected your work?

A:  Well, the fact of the matter is that I was 
pursuing a graduate degree in English literature 
and I just simply fell into Marshall McLuhan’s path. 
He was, at that time, not all that famous. This was 
in the late ’50s, and I thought, this is remarkable. 
Here’s a left-handed guy just like me who seems to 
sound a lot like I think. So I hung around for awhile. 
And the interesting thing about McLuhan was that 
he was able to pick up on the people who were on 
his wavelength, and he had this kind of—what I 
would call like a shadow college of people