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"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace speech transcript

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"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace speech transcript “This is Water” delivered by David Foster Wallace Background This speech was originally delivered by David Foster Wallace as the 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College. 1 Speech Transcript 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

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