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Learning How to Think

It’s commencement season again, so people are talking about David Foster Wallace and his address to the class of 2005 at Kenyon University, otherwise known as “This is Water.”

TheGlossary.com has created the best presentation of it you’re likely to ever see:


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Watch it today, and it will brighten your time in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence.

- Michael Moats

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The Infinite Jest Liveblog: An Aside

This is the latest entry in Words, Words, Words the ongoing liveblog of David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.”

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September 9, 2011, N/A. An aside for Friday and a weekend when we should try to remember to be our best selves. David Foster Wallace’s now famous commencement speech at Kenyon University in 2005. Transcript is here, but I recommend listening to the man himself.

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Part 2:

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I wish you way more than luck.

Read the full Infinite Jest Liveblog.

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