David Foster Wallace Kenyon Speech - This is Water - Excerpt
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David Foster Wallace giving a Commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. This speech was later published as This is Water.
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@vismundcygnus121 I have the transcript. I downloaded it from a website. DFW was an absolute genius!!!
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Listening to this gives me the howling fantods.
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Does anybody else also think of Kierkegaard's Either Or when you listen to this speech?
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does anyone know where one could find the unedited transcript?
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It makes me sad that this brilliant speech at Kenyon is all a lot of people know about him.
I was very sad when I finished 'The Pale King'...It was the last new thing I'd ever read that he wrote, and it was changed and edited by someone else.
How we measure value...
That is might be what the water is.
I wish he'd made Karen a cup of tea that afternoon instead. I wish he'd given time more of a chance but what do I know?
2bsirius 10 months ago 5
I'd recommend to anyone to read the full transcript of the speech, it's incredible.
vismundcygnus121 9 months ago 3