A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In Prufrock there is a metamorphosis almost every two or three lines. Eliot had just discovered the gimmick and was going flat out. The technique of the arrest is to give not the thing, but the effect of the thing. This is the fascination of child behaviour and child art. The child experiences the world in very low definition.
Letter to Eric McLuhan, December 28, 1970, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 417
Year: 1970
Chapter: Eliot, T.S.
Compiled by William Kuhns
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