A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

So obsessive a metaphor of linear perspective important enough to deserve some explanation, especially since we are deep in the process of extricating ourselves from it.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood”, in Sewanee Review, 1947, p 710
Quote #3489
Year: 1947
Chapters: Linear and Nonlinear | Logic & its Faultlines | Perspective, Point of View
↪ Also at #3617, #5350
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