I've got a hard deadline of January 2nd on the book, which will go straight to the printer thereafter, so will be finishing everything up over the next 36 hours. I'm going to send you the McCain chapter as soon as it's done; shouldn't be any more than four thousand words or so. Would you have time to read it perhaps tomorrow? I just wanted to make sure that it's totally accurate and up-to-date in terms of what we know and also that I don't leave out anything significant, and obviously you know the situation better than anyone else, plus of course you're to be discussed at some length and I want to make sure I get that right. Basically, I don't need any extensive notes or anything, just wanted you to read it real quickly and make sure I don't fuck anything up, because of course it'll be gone over with a fine-tooth comb when it comes out.

I've attached a couple of short academic articles on the subject of orality and media theory, which I'm writing about a bit in the book; thought you might find them interesting. The one on McLuhan was written by my uncle, incidentally.

• Attachments-1098/McLuhanMarsh.pdf
• Attachments-1098/Greek From Orality to Literacy.odt