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David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College is a timeless trove of wisdom — right up there with Hunter Thompson on finding your purpose. The speech was made into a thin book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life .
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace. The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005.
Last month, on the occasion of the author’s 50th birthday, we posted a large collection of free essays and stories by David Foster Wallace. But we missed a rare item: the complete audio recording of the commencement address Wallace gave at Kenyon College, in Ohio, on May 21, 2005–three years before ...
21 de may. de 2015 · She has researched the speech in the Wallace archive at the University of Texas, Austin, and written about it in Kenyon Review Online. David Foster Wallace was wearing his trademark bandanna and a white shirt with a Nehru collar when Christopher Bench '05 and Meredith Farmer '05 met him.
It is about making it to thirty, or maybe fifty, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."
11 de sept. de 2017 · Highlights from David Foster Wallace's famous commencement speech to the Kenyon College graduating class of 2005. An incredible examination of human consciousness, society, the soul,...
16 de dic. de 2023 · This speech was originally delivered by David Foster Wallace as the 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. Speech Transcript Greetings parents and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005.