A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Explanations that ignore the perceptual complementarity of eye and ear lead to conceptual conflict—the divorce of "rhyme and reason." "I have often seen it said," repeats the specialist. “Speak that I may see thee," said the seer.
“The Argument: Causality in the Electric World”, in Technology and Culture, Vol.14, No. 1, January (1973), p 13, reprinted in McLuhan Unbound # 3, (2005), p 21
Year: 1973
Chapters: Hot & Cool | Paradox
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