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24. Judith Stamps, Unthinking Modernity: Innis, McLuhan and the Frankfurt
School (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995); Edward
Comor, “Harold Innis’s Dialectical Triad,” Journal of Canadian Studies 29, no. 22
(summer, 1994): 111–27; Paul Heyer, Harold Innis (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Lit-
tlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003).
25. Hence the reason for McLuhan stating that his book The Gutenberg Galaxy is
but a footnote to the observations of Innis.
26. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962).
27. Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in
Poetry and Painting (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 240; emphasis added.
28. Robert E. Babe, “McLuhan and the Electronic Archives” (Ottawa: Library and
Archives Canada, 2007) www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/innis-mcluhan/002033-4010-e
.html (accessed Dec. 15, 2007).
29. Marshall McLuhan with Wilfred Watson, From Cliché to Archetype (New
York: Pocket Books, 1971), 20.
30. William Butler Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” as quoted in McLuhan
with Watson, From Cliché to Archetype, 20.