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Q: Do you have any insight into where McLuhan’s
ideas came from, into what kind of young scholar
he might have been?
A: I have no evidence, but I can imagine him as a
young student. I can imagine him being high-minded
the way he really was. He was born that way and I
think his mother helped him to stay that way. She
would read to him the whole of English literature in
little bits every morning. That must have helped. He
was bred on high-minded thinking. He would be at
University of Manitoba and at Oxford, he would be
constantly questioning the moral underpinnings of
any decision, of any event. He started out very