Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05560_Field_OMPO T20.txt

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following: that there are many rooms in the house
of the intellect. And different kinds of thinkers
occupy different kinds of rooms. Now if there’s a
room for those thinkers who see something quite
differently from everyone else, and form a
question that people in the other rooms hadn’t
thought about, in that sense we could say he was
a great thinker. I don’t think we would call him a
great scholar, because I don’t think he really had
the patience to work through some of the
implications of what he was saying, even in a book
like The Gutenberg Galaxy . Basically these are
quotes and allusions to the role that the printing
press and movable type played in shaping people’s