Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05683_Field_OMZI T3.txt

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could possibly have hoped for at a time when even
McLuhan wasn’t using the term “disincarnate
relations.” So I used to send people up to see him
and he would send little notes to me once in awhile,
and an occasional eleven o’clock phone call. So I
had this wonderful advanced communication
relationship with him long before it became
perfectly ordinary to do those kinds of things.

Not to be maudlin about it, but I regarded him then
and still do regard him as my spiritual father. And I
can’t escape that kind of intellectual paternity.
And everything I’ve done since is, I suppose, a
reflection of what it is I learned from him in the