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A review by luciajane
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
5.0
I love this! I think everyone who moves on from school (note that I’m not saying ‘everyone who graduates’) should read this! And then read it again every few years. Or every year, since it’s so short, it doesn’t take you very long. It reminds you of the fact that you have a choice how to think and I think we can all benefit from a little reminder every now and then. I am definitely going to read more by David Foster Wallace.
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Quotes:
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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The immediate point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
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Quotes:
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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The immediate point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.