This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (2009)

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• Author: David Foster Wallace
• Book title: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
• Publication year: 2009
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Number of pages: 138 pages
• Short description: How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others.
• Personal review: My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts - The meaning we construct out of life is a matter of personal, intentional choice. It’s a conscious decision

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