"There's a beautiful moment in a film about McLuhan where he's being interviewed at his daughter's wedding. He begins to go on a riff about the meaning of the ceremony... All of a sudden her eyes begin to change. She's getting really tense, and you can tell that she's thinking, "Goddam it Dad! Even at my fucking wedding?" And he's beginning to sense that he's packaged her; she's just become a resource colony to his imperial imagination." --- William Irwin Thompson
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Exactly.
William Irwin Thompson says exactly that in an interview I read recently.
"There's a beautiful moment in a film about McLuhan where he's being interviewed at his daughter's wedding. He begins to go on a riff about the meaning of the ceremony... All of a sudden her eyes begin to change. She's getting really tense, and you can tell that she's thinking, "Goddam it Dad! Even at my fucking wedding?" And he's beginning to sense that he's packaged her; she's just become a resource colony to his imperial imagination."
--- William Irwin Thompson
Can anyone imagine having him for a father? I'll bet it would help in an argument, because surely the great man's intellect must have rubbed off!
His daughter is a beautiful woman!
His daughter really did look like she was thinking: "Here we go again! Give it a rest, Dad"
I see his rambling as celebrating his daughter, as if to say "What is my role next to what she is going to be?"
Yes, ncurran1987, that's exactly what I was thinking... ha ha ! I wonder what he said in his table speech...
was he the prototype for the character "data" on star trek?
McLuhan really liked to play with words... and it seems be a bit of a trickster in the family.