"I don't know whether you have heard about the present crowd at Mass. Inst.
 of Tech.? They show more promise than all the literary blokes on this
 continent. They are what you and Lewis used to refer to as 'serious
 characters'. At any rate my idea is to by-pass the literary cliques and
 characters altogether." - McLuhan to Pound, LETTERS, 1951, pp.217-8;