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Ex Libris Marshall McLuhan
I thought I would share some of Marshall McLuhan’s signatures with you. Marshall signed his name in many of his books. Early on, in his time at the University of Manitoba, and also at Cambridge, he...
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Update: a few words on a library catalog
Dear reader: Apologies for not having posted anything yet this new year. Though 2011 is over, some seem to think that Marshall McLuhan’s centenary is also over. It is not! Marshall’s...
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LOS – Law of the Sit
Dear reader: The following is a transcript of writing on a sheet of paper tucked into a schoolbook from Marshall McLuhan’s days at the University of Manitoba, early 1930’s. The book is A Student’s...
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A lone a last a loved a long the
Dear reader; By way of having something of a tidy end to this collection of discoveries, I present a few thoughts on this blog – how I came to inventory Marshall McLuhan’s personal ‘working’ library –...
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Inscriptorium 2.0 – The Working Library of Eric McLuhan
The view from my desk, June 2018 Dear reader, I am back in the Scriptorium – Eric McLuhan’s library and office in rural Prince Edward County. Dad died last month, while we were on a trip together in...
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Return to Howth Castle
Colophon of Simon and Schuster. Dear Reader, The inventory of the library of Eric McLuhan has begun. It’s been just two months since he died while we were in Bogotá. Readers of this blog will know...
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60 Years Later, The Medium is the Message. (with an important note on this...
Dear reader, Two things. First: In conversation with my friend Carol Sill last night, I realized that a significant anniversary had passed by without taking note. Carol and I were talking (among other...
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Birch Bark Bookmark
In the fall of 1928, Marshall McLuhan enrolled into the Engineering program at the University of Manitoba, not far from where he lived in the city of Winnipeg. The following summer, he worked as a...
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By Many Means, Divers Devices: Lost and Pound – a journal, a library, a...
Eric McLuhan’s Joyce, Eliot, Pound shelves. Dear reader, When I started my second McLuhan inventory, the inventory of Eric McLuhan’s library, I thought I would be visiting this old forum more often....
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‘The earwig when bisected fights itself’
Dear reader, “If the past has anything to teach us it can only do so as the present. We can only evaluate the past or illuminate it from the point of view of the present. We can only correct the true...
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