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should really read his books. So he picked up
Empire and Communications and it absolutely
floored him. He said he wrote The Gutenberg
Galaxy straight from that book. He found out later
that Innis had put it on the reading list. Within six
weeks he had finished The Gutenberg Galaxy ,
which was a footnote to Innis.
He said every line of Innis is like the condensation
of a single book. There is so much reading behind
every line, it is a kind of condensation of all that
reading. Innis did that naturally, and McLuhan said
“I just unpacked some of Innis’ stuff.” And that’s
what The Gutenberg Galaxy was about. So Innis