The Mechanical Bride Thread

[Michael Bailey]

I liked Medium and Message, and Medium and Massage, and Gutenberg Galaxy,
they were pretty ok in my book.  Lots of interesting facts, an overarching
vision of some usefulness in conceptualizing the Zeitgeist, and an
idiosyncratic redefinition of common words ("hot", "cool") a la Lacan
eg, in service
of theory...which is always fun, it sets the book apart from the quotidian and
reveals the amibitious nature of the project...

I think it was Tom Wolfe who did a piece on McLuhan and
used the pervasive theme that McLuhan was living out the
dreams of every English Lit professor who ever lusted after the limelight...

but anyway, the title of Mechanical Bride - I could never bring myself
to read that.  Anybody else find that title really offputting?