B L A S T
England ancient GHOST of culture
POACHING the EYES of the Canadian HAMLETS
USA COLOSSUS of the South, horizontal
HEAVYWEIGHT, flattening the Canadian imagination
CBC BBC NBC CBS
Nets of the BIG GAME hunters, lairs of the NEW BABBITTS
THE NEW YORKER whimsical syncophant of CREAM PUFF culture
Hevyaleprinceton, nurseries of the ivy-clawed adolescent, the creeper mind
The printed b(oo)k moth-eated STRAIGHT-JACKET of the Western mind abstract art linked with ABSOLUTE ZERO
and 1914
B L A S T (for kindly reasons)
C A N A D A
The indefensible Canadian border
The SCOTTISH FUR-TRADERS who haunt the trade routes and folkways of the Canadian psyche
B L A S T all FURRY thoughts
The Canadian B E A V E R,
Submarine symbol of the
SLOW
UNHAPPY
Subintelligentsias
The woodcraft of all beaver minds devoted
To CANADIAN PONDS AND STREAMS
The UNBLASTABLE Scottish psyche of
CANADA
BLAST its canny flint-eyed MYOPIA
The original Counterblast (1954), these lines were spread in a very large font over unnumbered pages 2 and 3
Year: 1954
Chapter:
Canada
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan