When Gary Lee-Nova read a recent blogpost about a new posthumous collection of Mary Beach’s writings, Electric Bananas, it drew him to Marshall McLuhan’s notated copy of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Gary was kind enough to send along a couple of sample pages of those notations, as well as McLuhan’s comment about “stupidity” and “indifference.” Thanks, Gary. Very much appreciated.
from ‘Finnegans Wake’
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from ‘Finnegans Wake’
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This panel was created by Robert Reid, a distinguished Canadian designer, typographer, and artist based in Vancouver, B.C. It is being presented this month at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, in an exhibition/symposium entitled MARSHALL McLUHAN: WINNIPEG/WORLD: GLOBAL VILLAGE COUNTER-ENVIRONMENT, in collaboration with CAUSA (Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts).
This typographical image was presented in advance of
the CAUSA symposium at Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba.
Jan;
Thank you for the email notification. I have no objections to posting this material in my name.
I do think it relevant to the explorations made by Mary Beach.
The McLuhan Statement is from CAUSA, and I reckon that the statement is found in the published volume of Letters.
CAUSA = Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts.
I’m posting here because this week, I got software problems with MAIL. I can’t send email but I can receive it.
I’m working on a fix.
Best regards!
Interesting. However, it should be noted that there is no apostrophe in FINNEGANS WAKE.
You are so right. Thanks for the correction. I’ve updated with the fix.
And where I did fail besides the fugitive apostrophe was with the quoted McLuhan.
That panel is the work of a distinguished Designer, Typographer, and Vancouver Artist.
His name is Robert Reid, and CAUSA has been curating exhibitions of his fine work in Special Collections Libraries across the Canadian continent for the last year.
Please Credit the McLuhan panel to Robert Reid,
Thank you, Jan!