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This is Water

Perhaps the best 24 minutes...I listen to this speech a few times a year when like many, start to lose focus on important things in life. It is extraordinary and really great to share.

David Foster Wallace was an exceptional writer and our generation's Hemingway...gone too soon.

I hope that one or two of you will enjoy it...and if that happens, then so sweet.

This Is Water - Full version-David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech - YouTube *

* I don't know how to embed videos.


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This is Sparta.

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Thanks, that was interesting and I enjoyed it!
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My 17 y.o. son turned me on to this. I found it fascinating.

I read the poor soul committed suicide. Kinda changed my perspective on it a bit, but just because he succumbed to the negative voices in his head does not invalidate the message.
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I can t speak for him why he did what he did. I met him a few times over the years, had drinks and dinner with him. He was a great insightful guy.

I love that speech and I'm glad that you enjoy it.
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Great speech. Here's the Reader's Digest version in more of a movie form...


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