This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Recommended by Julie Zhuo, and 2 others. See all reviewsRanked #2 in Speech, Ranked #43 in Compassion — see more rankings.
Only 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 for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER.
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? 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... more
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? 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... more
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- #61 in Essays
- #48 in Meaning Of Life
- #53 in Morals
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