Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01929_Field_OMPA T27.txt

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It came to me as a college student. I thought “that
is wonderful” and I have kept it to this day. Even
now, I’m constantly talking in terms of hot
personalities and cold personalities, and when it
came time for me to go on to television after my
book Sexual Personae  was finally published, I was
at this point, in my’40s, I was very aware of this,
and as I went on television, I have always kept
McLuhan’s advice in my mind. It’s been a great
struggle for me, as a hot personality, to adapt to
the television medium and it took me quite a while
to figure out what to do. I’ve always been terrified
of coming across as sort of like a hurricane or
tornado on television. I’m fascinated by the kinds