Commencement address from David Foster Wallace:
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?”
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November 16, 2009 at 3:04 pm |
pretty interesting article. you can kind of tell how tortured a person he was.
November 16, 2009 at 3:15 pm |
yea. damn fine speech.
November 17, 2009 at 11:38 am |
yeah, he was a genius. it’s too sad that he wasn’t able to preserve his sanity longer.
November 17, 2009 at 11:38 am |
if you haven’t read it before, his article on federer was about as good as sportswriting gets:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all