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Denouement: David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005

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Denouement An irregular blog Home TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009 David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005 This speech was originally transcribed and posted at Marganlia.org until recently (though it is still available elsewhere) In order to help keep this speech that was free, and can still be found here, here is the originally transcribed version. "(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon's graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches,

Denouement: David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005 Pages Home Tuesday, May 19, 2009 David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005 This speech was originally transcribed and posted at Marganlia.org until recently (though it is still available elsewhere) In order to help keep this speech that was free, and can still be found here , here is the originally transcribed version. "(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Gr

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