Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/04903_Field_OMDK T2.txt

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I didn’t have any clue about gurus or the ’60s. I
didn’t come from the ’60s and I didn’t go through
the ’60s revolution like an American would. I came
from Europe. And though I met McLuhan in ’68, at
the time when Europe was going through a
revolutionary stage “mai soixante-huit,” and all
that, I wasn’t prepared for that at all. Because I
was not in the fermentation period in Europe and I
was not in the fermentation period in North
America.

So, coming on McLuhan after having listened to
Frye and to Robertson Davies and to French
professors in the French department, was a radical