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McLuhan, Marshall:
"Marshall McLuhan told me the first day he met me-- on one of the early Doxidis cruises-- ‘I am your disciple.’ He held up copies of ‘No More Secondhand God’ and ‘Nine Chains to the Moon’ and said to me: ‘I’ve joined your conspiracy!’
"McLuhan has never made any bones about his indebtedness to me as the original source of most of his ideas. The ‘Global Village’ indeed was my concept. I don’t think he has an original idea. Not one. McLuhan says so himself. He’s really a very great enthusiast, a marvelous popularizer and teacher. He has an irrepressible sense of the histrionic, like no one I’ve known other than Frank Lloyd Wright.
"My idea of ‘Man backing up into his future,’ appears in his books as ‘Rear-Mirrorism.’
"My concept of the ‘Mechanical extensions of man’ is the basis for his talk of the ‘Electrical Extensions’ of man.
“What McLuhan is is a Professor of English literature and, like most of that breed, a very fast reader. He has one of the most phenomenal memories I’ve ever run into. McLuhan felt that there”
