David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon:
28 December 2021
Just think for a moment, how long have you always assumed that you've absolutely understood the word 'freedom'.
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Just think for a moment, how long have you always assumed that you've absolutely understood the word 'freedom'.
Hope is all anyone really and truly has in this world. Just because hope purely comes from a positive objective origin, does not mean that it is something that is easy to keep ahold of. This is a very unfortunate and sad reality, but just because of the fact that something is pure and true, does not mean that keeping ahold of such a gracious gift comes easily. I am fairly sure that almost everyone who has ever lived in this world can refer to having lost something that they loved with all o [...continue reading]
Ahem, speaking of normaliztion.... cough covid-19 cough