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It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
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Edmonton
Alberta
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