A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The poet or novelist now composes on the typewriter. The typewriter fuses composition and publication, causing an entirely new attitude to the written and printed word.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 260
Year: 1964
↪ Also at #4610, #7162
Compiled by William Kuhns
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