Excellent, Michael. I especially enjoyed the lines about the two Margarets, but that was just a diversion. All these pieces are revelatory for me. A density of lived intellectual experience that followed my own and thus was a bit blank to me. But it also reminds me of my own. If that makes sense.
Also, I got to know Philip Marchand, McLuhan's biographer. He showed me how McLuhan explained subplots as an instance of epillion, the little story, without which you can't make art.
Excellent, Michael. I especially enjoyed the lines about the two Margarets, but that was just a diversion. All these pieces are revelatory for me. A density of lived intellectual experience that followed my own and thus was a bit blank to me. But it also reminds me of my own. If that makes sense.
Also, I got to know Philip Marchand, McLuhan's biographer. He showed me how McLuhan explained subplots as an instance of epillion, the little story, without which you can't make art.
I think the mockumentary you referenced is The Canadian Conspiracy. I couldn't find it for years but now it's on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XEaFLdK_e64
Wow, yes. Thanks! Seems it doesn't have Steve Martin, after all. Will add/change the details!