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It was made painfully clear in the media how he
dealt with the wedding of his daughter as a family
man. Or how his brother described Marshall as
being completely out of it. He was the proverbial
idiot-savant. His head was elsewhere. That is a
function of personality. It has to be.
I only knew McLuhan after the operation. Some
people say he was brighter before, but I think what
they are really saying is that he was more normal
before, he was more multi-levelled. Not that he was
uni-dimensional, he was uni-level. Marshall was
really always on a very high plane. Just the way he
would treat any occurrence: an invitation, a