Posts Tagged: commencement speech

George Saunders’ Syracuse Graduation Speech to Be Published

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In 2005, David Foster Wallace delivered his famous commencement speech to Kenyon’s graduating class, which was notorious for invoking the story about two young fish unable to recognize they are swimming in water. The speech was met with such widespread admiration and awe that it was published as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant […]

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