the scene as Mr. Entirely Normal. He is still here in that 
capacity, though increasingly in a panic about electric media, 
as he might well be. For the marginal man is a centre-without-
a-margin, an integral independent type. That is, he is feudal, 
“aristocratic,” and oral. The new urban or bourgeois man is 
centre-margin oriented. That is, he is visual, concerned about 
appearances and conformity or respectability. As he becomes 
individual or uniform, he becomes homogeneous. He belongs. 
And he creates and craves large centralist groupings, starting 
with nationalism.

Cervantes confronted typographic man in the figure of Don 
Quixote.

*     There is no need to go into Cervantes’ novel in detail, 
since it is well known. But Cervantes, in his life and in his work,