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fame, so the room was crowded with students and
there was a great air of anticipation as the great
man walked into the room.
There are a couple of things I remember even from
that first class he taught—it was in modern
poetry, and we were supposedly going to start
with Gerard Manley Hopkins, so he took a Gerard
Manley Hopkins poem and he read a couple of lines,
and then he said, “What’s the key word in that
line?” And of course everyone was scared to open
their mouths, until a brave student actually said
“Well, I think it’s the word buckle.” And McLuhan
said “Yes,” and, of course, that was the crucial