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This is water : some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion about living a compassionate life / David Foster Wallace.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Little, Brown, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 137 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780316068222
  • 0316068225
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC1011 .W25 2009
Summary: "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." -- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks LC1011 .W25 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001487171

Address to the graduating class of Kenyon College in 2005.

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

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