{"id":799,"date":"2012-10-20T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hargaden.com\/kevin\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-10-20T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:27:27","slug":"one-quote-review-you-know-nothing-of-my-work-by-douglas-coupland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hargaden.com\/kevin\/2012\/10\/20\/one-quote-review-you-know-nothing-of-my-work-by-douglas-coupland\/","title":{"rendered":"One Quote Review: You Know Nothing Of My Work! by Douglas Coupland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas Coupland wrote a brilliant biography of Marshal McLuhan called “You Know Nothing Of My Work!<\/a>” and I got to read it this week. On a Kindle! McLuhan would have hated that. Considering my last post was a hastily scribbled diatribe against Adam Gopnik’s power-play dressed up as defence of individualism, Coupland’s book is a rare thing – a piece of writing that takes the faith of its subject seriously. <\/p>\n

Here is an example of how Coupland, whose own work is so heavily inspired by McLuhan, takes his distinctive voice to the job of praising this strange, angry, Catholic prophet:<\/p>\n

But boy-oh-boy-boy<\/em> did he string together words in a way that now seems like dense, fabulous poetry! And he saw the world as a book created by God, and believed that there is nothing in it that cannot be understood – and that we fail to try understanding it at our peril.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Douglas Coupland, You Know Nothing Of My Work!, p. 17.<\/p>\n

Your Correspondent, This is the best introduction to McLuhan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglas Coupland wrote a brilliant biography of Marshal McLuhan called “You Know Nothing Of My Work!” and I got to read it this week. On a Kindle! McLuhan would have hated that. Considering my last post was a hastily scribbled diatribe against Adam Gopnik’s power-play dressed up as defence of individualism, Coupland’s book is a … <\/p>\n

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