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again to use sensory language, and that is what I
have tried to do. I think that that perception, my
initial perception about this, certainly came from
McLuhan. Whenever I write about media, or when I
write about high art, I am trying to use a very
explosive, high-impact—some people would
describe it as muscular sound—that’s coming from
the way I—it’s coming from a big, bold graphics of
advertisements. Coming from the big, bold colors
and size of 1950s Technicolor Cinemascope movies
and so on. I’ve joined McLuhan in this to Walter
Pater, the great aesthete who said in the 19th
century that the way you should write about
criticism is in terms of the way the artwork strikes