could possibly have hoped for at a time when even 
McLuhan wasn’t using the term “disincarnate 
relations.” So I used to send people up to see him 
and he would send little notes to me once in awhile, 
and an occasional eleven o’clock phone call. So I 
had this wonderful advanced communication 
relationship with him long before it became 
perfectly ordinary to do those kinds of things.

Not to be maudlin about it, but I regarded him then 
and still do regard him as my spiritual father. And I 
can’t escape that kind of intellectual paternity. 
And everything I’ve done since is, I suppose, a 
reflection of what it is I learned from him in the