This Is Water - David Foster Wallace - Part 1

courtesy of http://www.bravenewlife.com

This is part 1 of a commencement speech given in 2005 by David Foster Wallace.

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[ContraPoints]

Well, Bloom, like so many writers and critics, is so focused on one ideal of thinking and beauty that he totally misses genius when it takes other forms.

[minored360]

"Most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pulled the trigger" -- Fuck, man, that line gave me a teary eye; he gave this speech in 2005 and killed himself in 2008.

[jamesedwardtheobald]

not only that, someone may have a dilemma that none of us can relate to. i know i can't relate to the trauma of say, someone who was raped by their parents as a child. or someone who had a chemical depression, as mr wallace did. and as for the insensitive comments here ->that's okay, this is youtube after all, is to be expected, and we can be humorous about such things), i am sure mr wallace himself would not mind,judging from this speech, and would have agreed in a certain sense...

[demonator506]

And you are free to do so.

[demonator506]

The most obvious and important realities are the ones that are hardest to see.

[PaperettaPensierosa]

If your mother tell you that if you fall down from the fifth floor you'll die and one day she decides to jump down from the fifth floor, then you'll think that her advice was useless?

[Zachary Tepe]

I like McDonalds...

[ppofnz]

this guys the man! 

[KyleG1102]

i'm sorry for being insensitive but i'm not taking life advice from someone who was one anti-depressants and committed suicide.

[Jeremy Masters]

Shut the hell up. Jesus Christ.

[Cormin]

I spent most of the video trying to figure out if the picture was still zooming out

[Mapother78]

He tells you at 1:00.