A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We are back in acoustic space. We begin again to structure the primordial feelings and emotions from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us.
Hands have no tears to flow.
“Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath”, in Shenandoah The Washington And Lee University Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, Autumn (1955), p 52, reprinted in Explorations 4, (1955), p 33 , Explorations in communication: an anthology (1960), p 208, Also appears in alternative format as part of Verbi-Voco-visual Explorations, (1967), Counter Blast (1969), p 17, Essential McLuhan
(1995), p 211
Year: 1995
Chapter: Retribalizing
Compiled by William Kuhns
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