“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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Section 7
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
Context: There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”
On the reaction of male journalists to a female reporting cricket. Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/feb/09/guardianobituaries.cricket
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 54
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
Emergence and Convergence (2003), p. 424.
2000s
“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.”
As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV (10 September 1986)
Introductory
The Grammar of Science (1900)
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision