A Man's Reach

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a metaphor?

Marshall McLuhan

I never met Marshall McLuhan, tho' I met people who did, chiefly Barker Fairley (who once painted my portrait, which i still have). One of them (can't remember which) said

``Marshall is a prophet; by that I don't mean that what he says comes to pass, I mean that something speaks out of him and he doesn't know what it is.''

Well ... perhaps there's something in that .... Now that we have been pitchforked into the internet age it might just be worth looking at what McLuhan had to say—well, prophesy—about it.

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