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McLuhan, Marshall:
"were many things being written of great cogency but which society was missing altogether. This is the source of his missionary zeal and fervor.
"After dinner on the Doxiadis ship we used to dance and Marshall would dance with his wife all over the place, so much so that he took up the whole dance floor. He thought we had all stopped to marvel at his and his wife’s performance, but that wasn’t it; the way he was dancing there wasn’t room for the rest of us and we had to leave the floor.
"And I remember one time on a live television panel at a P.E.N. meeting in Canada when McLuhan’s critics were really giving McLuhan a pretty rough time. He relished in it and would infuriate the critics by completely ignoring their most telling attacks. I started taking up for him and coming to his support, but I abandoned this as soon as I realized that it was just all a big game to him.
“McLuhan has always been the first to say ‘Bucky is my master. I am only his disciple.’”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, 31B, 200 Locust, Phila., 10 Jul’73
