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being cross-examined or if they were lucky,
applauded by McLuhan.
He was like the fastest gun in the west. People
wanted to top his verbal repertoire, his wit, his
turnaround of phrases, his verbal acrobatics, his
command of literature. And so, he loved a good
sparring partner who could keep about a 90-mile-
per-hour brain going up against his. He often
flaunted his students into seeing their own
pedantry or own conventional wisdom, their own
mediocrity of thinking, and often he’d return
papers saying “one idea” or “two ideas” at the
top, with no other comment. In other words, he