Forsdale: This is Louis Forsdale, July 17, 1978, TL4011B, Topics in Communication. Our guest speaker today is Professor Marshall McLuhan from the University of Toronto. All of you know Professor McLuhan. All of you know his credentials. I talked with you on the first day about my feelings about him as one of the towering people in the 20th century in the field of communication. I’d like to say something else now at a much more personal level. I’ve known Marshall for thirty years now, it develops, we were talking about it last night. I invited him to come down to TC for a session which I described in our first period. And we have developed through the years a kind of a close-distant friendship in which we see each other once or twice a year and we exchange letters and so forth. And I’ve come to
