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critics, and read him. But pause at the threshold.
To penetrate the meaning of his work, it is
necessary to join in the act of exploration, as he
did, tacking between texts and the world. Testing,
testing. Here is where the gloriously laborious task
of translating insight into understanding unfolds.
“The academic coverage is only beginning for my
stuff.” (Letters , (1987) p.505 [1974])
For several years now I have been excavating
McLuhan’s formidable body of work, and retracing
his sources. * The fundamental clue to navigating
by the lights of McLuhan is to read him on his own