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This Is Water
137 pages, 2009
philosophy
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705 booksself-improvement
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408 booksOnly once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted in book form in This is Water for the first time.
How does one keep from unconsciously going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others.
After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.
Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living. He offers advice that renews us with every reading.
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