Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08670_Field_TCGG T435.txt

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of a mosaic:

          Nowadays, when an author dies, we can see clearly
     that his own printed works standing in his bookcases are
     those works which he regarded as completed and
     finished, and that they are in the form in which he wished
     to transmit them to posterity; his handwritten ‘papers’,
     lying in his drawers, would obviously be regarded
     differently; they were clearly not considered by him as
     ultimately finished and done with. But in the days before
     the invention of printing this distinction would not by any
     means be so apparent. Nor could it be determined so
     easily by others whether any particular piece written in
     the dead author’s handwriting was of his own
     composition or a copy made by him of somebody else’s
     work. Here we have an obvious source of a great deal of