Apesar de todos os acontecimentos histórico-histéricos, nós, os verdadeiramente derrotados, vamos continuar a manter níveis de calma em posições espectacularmente elevadas

Professor Lord's book, like the studies of Milman Parry, is quite natural and appropriate to our electric age, as The Gutenberg Galaxy may help to explain. We are today as far into the electric age as the Elizabethans had advanced into the typographical and mechanical age. And we are experiencing the same confusions and indecisions which they had felt when living simultaneously in two contrasted forms of society and experience. marshall mcluhan, gutenberg galaxy, 1962