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The image on TV is a mosaic mesh—a pulsation of
light and dark spots is projected at the viewer, and
he is caught in a web. That is the most profoundly
involving thing that has ever happened to people on
this planet. There’s nothing else even approximating
the power of that image to envelop the human
sensibilities. The viewer closes the spaces in the
mesh by involving himself in the TV image. This
medium requires an involvement that creates a
totally new audile-tactile man and woman. Instead
of a visual detached individual, you suddenly get a
very organic and very integral being.
Linda Sandler, “An Informal Interview with Marshall