A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Every service environment breeds innumerable disservices. This inspired Baudelaire to label them Fleurs du Mal. These ancient flowers take new root and nurture from new technologies in unexpected ways.
Letter to The Listener, October 8, 1970, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 435
Year: 1970
↪ Also at #6319
Compiled by William Kuhns
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