In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the m… - Marshall McLuhan

The ear favours no particular “point of view.”
We are enveloped by sound.

It forms a seamless web around us.

We say, “Music shall fill the air.” We never say, “Music shall fill a particular segment of the air.”We hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus.

Sounds come from “above,” from “below,” from in “front” of us, from “behind” us, from our “right,” from our “left.”

We can‘t shut out sound automatically.

We simply are not equipped with earlids.

Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.

We are as numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 9)

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. (p. 230)