person
also known as Paul Ryan
The video artist and former priest — not the politician, as Cameron checks — who introduced himself to Bob at the same mid-90s New School panel and turned out to have been Carpenter's assistant during the Fordham year of 1968. He is the concrete return on Bob's argument for going to the badly attended afternoon session: the room nobody wanted held the living link. New to it — start with dialogue 68.
Across the dialogues
68
Enters as the payoff of the panel anecdote — the unpromising room that turned out to hold a direct line back to the Fordham year, which is what lets Bob generalize the panel into a method
The biographical hinge — a Catholic already unsure whether the priesthood still mattered, who heard McLuhan on WBAI and went over, which is how the Fordham circle absorbed him.
"he was Carpenter's assistant at the Fordham scene in 68. And he was a priest, and he was listening to McLuhan and those guys in 66, 67, you know, when they were doing the Tony Schwartz scene, and I heard him on WBAI."
Connections
assistant toTed Carpenter
Ryan was Carpenter's assistant during the Fordham year in 1968.