Comments on: Kenyon Commencement Speech – 2005 – David Foster Wallace

By: 9. Punhetar « a algália de Godot

9. Punhetar « a algália de Godot — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:46:04 +0000

[...] mal, não está em que «probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education–least in my own case–is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualise stuff, to get lost in abstract argument [...]

By: 8. « a algália de Godot

8. « a algália de Godot — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:54:18 +0000

[...] David Foster Wallace, senhoras e senhoras (melhor, mãe e pai – os únicos que me lêem): «Most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options.» [...]

By: and then patterns | Water, Water, Everywhere…

and then patterns | Water, Water, Everywhere… — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:28:48 +0000

[...] first read David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to Kenyon College shortly after the author’s death and shortly before attempting to read Infinite Jest for the [...]

By: inventing the pain of others: david foster wallace’s kenyon college commencement speech « ads without products

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:22:41 +0000

[...] was recently led back to David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College by Alex Abramovich’s post at the LRB blog. What a strange piece of writing it is. And how [...]

By: andy

andy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:59:41 +0000

interesting speech.

By: sass

sass — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:10:02 +0000

thanks for sharing this… this is very insightful.