“Aretino, like Rabelais and Cervantes, proclaimed the meaning of Typography as Gargantuan, Fantastic, Supra-human.”

—  Marshall McLuhan, book The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 220

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