Extra: The Absolute Darkness that is "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace

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English - September 27, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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David Foster Wallace's famous 2005 commencement speech "This is Water" gets a lot of hype. Thank God we're here to set the record straight: this speech is just pure darkness of post-modernism and embracing the consumerism of capitalism as sacred.

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