"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
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foad wrote:

"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
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Saturday I found for $0.50 a fine copy of the 1967 softcover of
McLuhan's book. Not worth anything like the hardcover firsts, but still
scarce.

You could have got a roll of Charmin for that price.

I would have to sell a lot of Charmin for what this could get retail.

I wasn't referring to the mercantile. I was suggesting that you'd be better
off wiping your ass with it than reading it.


McLuhan's message of "hot" media is actually more accurate now even than
then. One political commentator referred to the use of Twitter in Iran as
a "revolution in 140 characters or less".

Quite. It's hard to believe Robespierre managed it all without an Ipod.



P.S. Yesterday I did even better at a local thrift shop. For the same
price I acquired a first printing paperback - the true first - of *The
Sweet Flypaper of Life* (1955) by Langston Hughes (text) and Roy DeCarava
(photos), a novella illustrated with photos every page. An early graphic
novel.