This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

One of the most famous commencement speeches in recent years by an excellent if tragic writer and professor; it is an inspiring and rousing endorsement of liberal studies, critical thinking, and self-determination; the ethical basis and foundation of modernity, democracy, and Western Civilization.

This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

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This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech

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