NP but McLuhan. Worth it to the end, I say. We're both right.

[Mark Kohut]

https://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/interview/1976-what-television-does-best/

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 5:52 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I already had in mind to thank you for the reproach: it sounds
> condescending, I know, but I only wanted to make a joke as retaliation (?)
> to your remark regarding twitter and the Arab spring. The trees are coming
> into leaf, still without twitter, thankfully.
>
> You mentioned McLuhan. Do you remember that he assimilated the Swan of
> Avon when he appraised TV: "It speaks, and yet says nothing" (hey, what
> light through yonder window breaks: it's the pest light). Would he have
> greeted Twitter and F***book as an extension of Man? Perhaps, as a
> carbuncle.
>
>
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
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