David Foster Wallace, ‘This is Water,’ 2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College

Probably been posted over and over, but the best 23 minutes of listening you might ever do. And very apropos to a far more ‘plugged in’ now than 2005.  We now have the power to project our ‘skull sized kingdom’ across digital ether. 

Transcription HERE

Listen to more DFW HERE

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