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Q: You interviewed McLuhan on several occasions;
describe what kind of guy he was around
technology, surrounded by cameras. Did he enjoy
celebrity, did he like being in the spotlight?
A: Marshall was a publicity hound, he was the
professor as self-promoter. At the beginning of his
career he imagined that he would make a lot of
money selling his ideas to business and industry,
perhaps governments. He imagined that he was
such an idea man, that his ideas would flow out
and people would buy them and so on. And in order
to do that he had to be famous; he wanted to be
famous. Fame was not thrust upon him; he sought