As Bob and Marshall left the church, Bob couldn’t hold back the question he’d kept to himself for the last couple of years.
Dobbs: Mac, why do you go to Mass every day?
McLuhan: The Mass is the secret behind everything I write about. The stages of apprehension which are replayed in the artistic, creative process are also echoed in the Eucharist. These stages of apprehension are again mimed in the rituals of the collective, social energies as shown in the popular phrase “mass media.” However, what we are living in today is a Black Mass that is eating us alive daily. So I have a responsibility everyday to hold up the Catholic Mass to our environment just as the Holy Cross is used to ward off a vampire.
Dobbs: So Christ took the simple act of sharing food, turned it into an artform, the cliche’-to-archetype pattern, and parodied the secret cults and their magicians for all time.
McLuhan: You got it!
& Throughout all Eternity
I forgive you you forgive me
As our Dear Redeemer said
This the Wine & This the Bread
The thirteenth and final stanza of William Blake’s “My Spectre.