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Q: Did McLuhan have artistic genius?
A: Well he was a lousy wine taster. I don’t think his
taste in painting was all that great. I think he had
an extraordinary sense of poetry and language. He
had language like the best poet and the best
philosopher put together. And that was his art, I
think.
And I made the mistake of two or three times
bringing him a bottle. And finding that he would
taste it the same as the ordinary Canadian beer.
So I didn’t do it anymore. And in music—oh, you
know, I don’t think he had an exceptional music