The current literati who begin to splash about in print at 25 to-day (when a man's powers should begin to amount to something) are, mentally, refugees from Buchenwald. Their only fare has been soup made from straw. Show me some of the vigorous non-professorial young of today. I've been prowling about looking for them everywhere.
Letter to Ezra Pound, July 30, 1948, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987) p 198
Year: 1948
Chapter:
Wake Them Up!
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan