David Foster Wallace · Kenyon College Commencement Address · 2005

This is water

~22 minutes · delivered 2005-05-21

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Delivered May 21, 2005 — what it means to think, to choose what to attend to, and to refuse the default settings of self-centered consciousness. The most-quoted essay on adult awareness.

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