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This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
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Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. 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 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 and offers advice that renews us with every listen.
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- John Nosal
- 09/10/2012
The best 20 minutes of my life.
I have listened to "This is Water" hundreds of times. At first, I would listen and laugh. Now, years later, I listen and cry. The text hasn't changed, I have. This is the best 20 minute synopsis of the purpose of life that I have ever heard.
(Also highly recommended - "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace")
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- SHAWN
- 14/01/2011
Cheap production quality
Why would the producers of this "audiobook" overlay loud music at the end so that you can barely make out what Wallace said but then lower the volume of the music when they read off the production credits? Maddening!!
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- Stephen
- 20/05/2015
Powerful
This quiet, unassuming speech packs a lot of Truth in its 20-minute delivery by the author, David Foster Wallace. It is a meditation that I have come back to many times.
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- Not You
- 31/05/2015
Great narrative
This is a great commencement speech. Perhaps the greatest ever. I highly recommend this recording. Give it a listen.
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- Christopher Vogt
- 11/03/2015
Life Changing
This speech quite literally changed my life when I heard it three years ago. I think it is the best articulation of mindfulness I have ever come across. I listened to this speech at a time in my life I was going through some difficult health problems and it really helped me a lot. I would recommend it to anyone.
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- matt
- 29/05/2015
taoism from the tortured modern American soul.
living with Conscientious awareness of our surroundings and the people in our daily lives and choosing how we respond to it all. The eternal capital T truth is that man must learn how to endure his own internal monolog if he ever wishes to find harmony.
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- Sarah Fay
- 01/05/2012
You must listen to this!
Would you listen to This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording again? Why?
David Foster Wallace is known for his novels and short stories, but he shines most in his nonfiction work. He was an exceptional journalist (download Consider the Lobster, which he reads as well) and, in a way, philosopher. This is an opportunity to hear one of our finest writers speak, even though he's no longer with us.
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- Meghan
- 17/11/2011
Very inspiring
I listen to this any time that I think that the world around me is so terrible and crashing down, or if I just need inspiration or motivation to do important things in my life. I love this speech. David Foster Wallace is missed, but he did wonderful things while he was here.
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- Max Pynchon
- 07/09/2015
How To Graduate College And Not Be The Center Of The Universe
Great speech on getting out of yourself and not listening to the committee in your head. DFW's writing is funny and insightful and it is sad that he no longer walks among us.
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- squeasel
- 25/08/2015
no gills...
no gills, which would perhaps explain the lifetime struggle for anyone that feels this already and always has.
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- Christian Faustmann
- 06/05/2018
listen to it over and over
a short speach on how to think, which gives you adaily reminder to not constantly fall into your default set of thinking. I can highly recommend it!
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- Verena
- 24/07/2017
love the speech but the editing sucks
This is water is amazing. Unfortunately the last part has loud annoying music edited over.
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