David Foster Wallace gave this speech at the Kenyon University commencement in 2005. I read it in 2007. It was published in 2009.
When I first read it, I got through the whole thing, finally coming to the end where he says, "This is water." And I found that to be the strikingest of all the DFW striking lines in the history of DFW. So I send a mass email to family and friends attaching the speech and asking them to read this beautiful piece of insight I had been blessed with. The email subject line was, "This is water"
So I'm hanging out in the Book Table today and I'm about to check out and I stumble across a book by David Foster Wallace (deceased 2008) called "This is Water."
Someone once told me I have a knack for finding unusual striking lines.
