A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Eliot is specific ally saying here that the only way you can control any very complex anarchic situation is by parallel borders, a border or a frontier. It is a method already adumbrated by Mr. Yeats, and of the need for which I believe Mr. Yeats to have been the first contemporary to be conscious.
“The Marfleet Lectures”, March 16-17 (1967), reprinted in Understanding Me (2003), p 110
Year: 1967
Chapter: Eliot, T.S.
Compiled by William Kuhns
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