A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Conversation is, for me, something like Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a game in which you play all sorts of nose-dives and air-tumbles.
Letter to Pete Buckner, October 28, 1971 (LAC), quoted in W.T. Gordon’s MM: Escape into Understanding, (1997), p 283
Quote #3858
Year: 1971
Chapters: Dialogue | McLuhan on McLuhan | Playfulness
↪ Also at #1471, #5445
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