RE: David Foster Wallace 2005 Commencement Speech at Kenyon College: This is Water.

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David Foster Wallace 2005 Commencement Speech at Kenyon College: This is Water.

in books •  7 years ago 

i have loved this speech since it became public. i think my favorite line is this:

"Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you."

absolute brilliance.

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      ·  7 years ago 

    Such a great line, and so true. Wallace was a true gift.

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        ·  7 years ago 

      seriously. what a fucking talent he was. his prose was often too dense for me, but i almost always enjoyed whatever of his i read. such a loss for literature.

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