“King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by which men translate themselves from a world of roles to a world of jobs.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 16

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

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