Silent reading was impossible until the presses created the maca… — "Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 41, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 8.

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Silent reading was impossible until the presses created the macadamized highways of print.

"Joyce, Mallarmé and the Press", in The Sewanee Review, Vol.62, No.1, Jan-March (1954), p 41, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 8.

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Year: 1954

Chapter: Reading