David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Address, “This is Water”
In 2005, David Foster Wallace gave the commencement speech at Kenyon College in Ohio. An audience member later transcribed it from videotape and it lived a second life on the Internet. Eventually published under the title This is Water, it is one of his most widely shared and beloved pieces of writing.
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