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academics and professors the whole object of the
game is to make an assertion, let’s say, then back
it up with ten-foot notes, define your terms, all
this kind of very, well as we say, academic stuff
McLuhan had no patience for whatsoever.
If a fact was wrong, well, it had sparked off an
interesting insight on his part, so he didn’t want to
be picked at or cross examined as far as his
information or his sources. A lot of it professors
hated that, and in fact when I was doing the
biography I noticed some would say, “Oh, he was
very stimulating,” but they said it as if it were sort
of frivolity on his part. As if they could be