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With mechanization of speech and gesture and swamping with visual-auditory matter after print-created drought we come to age of semi-literacy, at best.
Letter to Ezra Pound, July 16, 1952, in
Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987)
p 232
Quote #3525
Year:
1952
Chapter:
Literacy
Compiled by William Kuhns
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