As a vacuum tube is used to shape and control vast reservoirs of… — "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 45, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 11-12.

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As a vacuum tube is used to shape and control vast reservoirs of electric power, the artist can manipulate the low current of casual words, rhythms, and resonances to evoke the primal harmonies of existence or to recall the dead. But the price he must pay is total self-abnegation.

"Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 45, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 11-12.

Quote #465

Year: 1954

Chapter: Art, Artists