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This Is Water

Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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This Is Water

By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Amy Wallace-Havens
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 How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? This speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.©2009 David Foster Wallace Literary Trust (P)2009 David Foster Wallace Literary Trust Consciousness & Thought Education Ethics & Morality Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Witty

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A timely reminder that to be alive and understand the meaning of that existence is to acknowledge & appreciate the existence of those who share our timeline.

existence is to acknowledge & appreciate the existence of those who share our timeline.

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