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say to you. And so a century from now, I think, it
will be very hard for people to understand why we
were excited about McLuhan. And I get the sense,
even now, that a lot of feeling about McLuhan—
gratitude to him, all knowledge of him—is oral. It’s
passed on, passed-on oral history. I collected all
the copies of the magazine called Explorations that
he published in the 1950s—he and Edmund
Carpenter, the anthropologist, were the co-editors.
I find that privately no one else has kept those
magazines, and practically no one knows what
that magazine is when I tell them about it. I
thought it was the best magazine, or one of the
two best magazines that were published in that