The Greek “point of view” in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. (p. 64) - Marshall McLuhan

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 message are fully one and the same.

The past went a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror.

The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.