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remember that Charlie Weingartner, McLuhan and I
shared a room together, which was great fun
because Charlie and I had a chance to listen to
McLuhan invent ideas and do his probes deep into
the night. On that occasion his cigar was lit and
the lights were off and it was two or three in the
morning, and we finally had to ask him if he could
stop and let us all get some sleep.
But I would say from roughly 1956 until he died, I
took every opportunity I could find to listen to him
speak and to have conversations with him.
Although the word conversation here has to be
explained: I don’t think I ever really did have a