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Q: Could you tell us about your first encounter
with Marshall McLuhan?
A: I was a graduate student at teachers college
and the course was being conducted by Louis
Forsdale. He’s retired now but he was a friend of
McLuhan. McLuhan was an obscure English
professor at the University of Toronto, but
Forsdale was well aware of some of McLuhan’s
ideas and brought him down from Toronto to give
a lecture. McLuhan, in those days, still smoked
cigars, although he mostly had them unlit as far as
I could see, and he gave his talk with an unlit cigar
in his mouth. And he talked in that style that we