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fashion, but will he have a lasting impact? Will his
thinking have resonance in the future?
A: I think, as I thought for a long time, that
posterity will be pretty cruel to McLuhan. He made
a horrible mistake—he didn’t write the “big book”.
He didn’t write the book that takes four or five
years in which you test your ideas and you find
out which ideas are meaningless and which of them
are valid. You sort the good ones from the bad
ones, and try and build a synthesis out of a career
of thinking. He didn’t write that book, so there’s
nowhere that his admirers can tell people to go
and say read that—that’s what Marshall’s got to