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Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Quotes: To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
         

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.


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To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
         



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