A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

So obsessive a metaphor as that of linear perspective is important enough to deserve some explanation, especially since we are now deep in the process of extricating ourselves from it.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood”, in Sewanee Review, Vol.55, No.4, October, (1947),p 710; reprinted in McLuhan Unbound (2003)
Quote #3617
Year: 1947
Chapters: Linear and Nonlinear | Logic & its Faultlines | Perspective, Point of View
↪ Also at #3489, #5350
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