“Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 253

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

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