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“This is Water” delivered by David Foster Wallace. Background. 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.
David Foster Wallace gave the commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who...
One of the most famous commencement speeches in recent years by an excellent if tragic writer and professor; it is an inspiring and rousing endorsement of liberal studies, critical thinking,...
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.
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.
Sep 11, 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,...
Mar 6, 2012 · In the speech, Wallace talks about the challenge of moving beyond the superficial kind of freedom that can be acquired through power and wealth, toward a truer liberation that arises only when we become more fully conscious of the world outside our “tiny skull-sized kingdoms.”
