Omnipresence has become an ordinary human dimension. - Marshall McLuhan

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

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

To be born in this age is a precious gift, and I regret the prospect of my own death only because I will leave so many pages of man’s destiny — if you will excuse the Gutenbergian image — tantalizingly unread.