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Q: How did you first encounter McLuhan, and how
has he affected your work?
A: Well, the fact of the matter is that I was
pursuing a graduate degree in English literature
and I just simply fell into Marshall McLuhan’s path.
He was, at that time, not all that famous. This was
in the late ’50s, and I thought, this is remarkable.
Here’s a left-handed guy just like me who seems to
sound a lot like I think. So I hung around for awhile.
And the interesting thing about McLuhan was that
he was able to pick up on the people who were on
his wavelength, and he had this kind of—what I
would call like a shadow college of people