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This speech was originally delivered by David Foster Wallace as the 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. 1. Speech Transcript. Greetings parents and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005.
- You’re not the center of the universe. A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
- Don’t live life by default. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable.
- You choose what you worship. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t.
- Real freedom is sacrifice. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
978-0-316-06822-2. 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. The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format ...
- David Foster Wallace
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- 2009
- April 14, 2009
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Jun 5, 2016 · Below is a summary of and commentary on David Foster Wallace ‘s (1962 – 2008) famous commencement speech: “ This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. ” Its themes include solipsism, loneliness, monotony, education, and the importance of sympathy and conscious awareness.
May 20, 2016 · May 20, 2016, 10:01 AM EDT. David Foster Wallace wanted to know who had thought bringing him to Kenyon College to deliver its commencement address was a good idea. Meredith Farmer, an English and philosophy double major in the class of 2005, nervouslyclaimed responsibility. "Go fuck yourself," Wallace told her.
Sep 12, 2012 · This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life. On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962–September 12, 2008) was slain by depression, taking his own life and becoming a kind of patron-saint of the “tortured genius” myth of creativity. Just three years earlier, he stepped onto the podium at Kenyon College and delivered ...
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