A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

If I miss you on the telephone, my theme is this: The peculiar attitudes of wild animals to enclosed spaces, i.e., their power to identify with the space as if it were an extension of themselves in the style of “clothing.” This seems to apply even to their keepers. It was a form of behavior that is reported by Frankel of the Jews in the death camps. Why will caged lions refuse to leave these spaces when the gates are left open? Jack Paar tells me that he could not even induce them to leave by putting food outside the cage.
Letter to Edward T. Hall, June 23, 1969 [not in Letters]
Year: 1969
Chapter: Telephone
Compiled by William Kuhns
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