This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Audiobook | BooksCougar

This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Audiobook

This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Audiobook

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Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public chat on his views on life, throughout a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is actually the audio recording of David Foster Wallace providing that very address. So how exactly does one avoid going through their comfortable, prosperous adult lifestyle unconsciously? Just how do we obtain ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and obtain compassion? The talk captures Wallace’s electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured written piece reprinted in The Wall structure Street Journal as well as the London Occasions, commented on endlessly in sites, and emailed from friend to friend.

Writing along with his one-of-a-kind mixture of causal laughter, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the issues of everyday living and will be offering advice that renews us with every listen.

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