David Foster Wallace's commencement speech to Kenyon back in 2005 is getting somewhat of a renaissance on the web this week thanks to The Glossary, and, being all about spreading/preserving the word of Wallace, here's the full transcript:
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words
"The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost
nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple
awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in
plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding
ourselves over and over: This is water."
