Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 21
“...the dizzying vividness of the images of places and people that the letters have unlocked. Images so vivid she can only call them memories.”
— David Mitchell, book Cloud Atlas
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", p. 120
Cloud Atlas (2004), Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 1)
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