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  1. Oct 2, 2024 · What is the purpose of the anecdote with which David Foster Wallace opens the speech? What is the effect of his returning to the line "This is water" again near the end of the speech and repeating it there?

  2. Sep 26, 2024 · David Foster Wallace > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “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?"

  3. Oct 1, 2024 · For a long time I, like so many others, romanticized David Foster Wallaces suicide. It crystallized him as a tragic figure, eternally 46, handsome, at the height of his powers—we never saw him go gray and saggy, grow uncool, post cringey takes on Twitter.

  4. Sep 25, 2024 · Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace died by suicide in 2008. His tragic fate made him even more famous but arguably turned him from a countercultural figure into a cultural commodity.

  5. Oct 7, 2024 · Tim Groenland provides a thorough comparison of the composing processes of Wallace and Carver and examines Wallace’s disdain for categorization, particularly concerning dirty realism. Any study of Carver’s influence on Wallace should begin with Groenland’s work.

  6. Oct 1, 2024 · David Foster Wallace — ‘The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and speed of everything that flash...

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  8. Sep 23, 2024 · Infinite Jest, novel by David Foster Wallace, published in 1996, that satirically attacks the vacuous predilections of contemporary American culture mercilessly while shamelessly reveling in them.