A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…much of the complaint about the rosary is repetitive, is precisely, replay and it is a perpetual deepening, not a superficial treatment at all. But there is in the replay, a deeper awareness of the pattern and of the events that have taken place, the pattern of events, the process and so, replay offers a deeper level of awareness than the first play and I think the Rosary is a perpetual way of deepening our awareness and the repetitions are really very close to the world of resonance…
“Televised interview by Father Patrick Peyton”, on Father Peyton’s Family Theatre, 1972, Youtube, transcript, p 2
Year: 1972
Compiled by William Kuhns
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