“The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal.”

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 352

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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