Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01924_Field_OMPA T22.txt

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that the speed at which I became a kind of pop
figure shows that there was a vacuum. It was a
vacuum waiting to be filled. The speed at which I
began to be the subject of cartoons, with which
suddenly journalists enjoyed quoting me on some
topic—and I’m quoted on everything from Fabio, to
like, the most recent penis-cutting incident done in
Virginia or wherever—I think that what’s
wonderful. McLuhan was creating the persona of
the scholar who was also the cultural
commentator, who reconciles in his own mind, his
own person, the terrible division that we have
between high culture and popular culture that we
still suffer from, despite everything that Andy