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Marshall McLuhan - All words at every level of prose...

All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation. (Marshall McLuhan)

All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.

Marshall McLuhan

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