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

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Buy This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by Foster Wallace, David (ISBN: 9780316068222) from desertcart's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.

Review: This is a gem! - When you open it, you’ll be surprised how little text is on each page. But it works. It’s a commencement speech from a US college, and the fragments are so easy to read - it lets the message hit home much more effectively. A pity we lost this brilliant man.
Review: Short but brilliant. - I'm in the process of reading everything the man wrote in his tragically curtailed life. This essay is thought provoking and, as ever, brilliantly written and, to use one of many words Ihabe learned from the man himself, slightly pleonastic. Go on, look it up.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 112,887 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 756 in Essays, Journals & Letters 1,043 in Philosophy (Books) 1,726 in Practical & Motivational Self Help |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (2,510) |
| Dimensions  | 12.07 x 1.91 x 17.15 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0316068225 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0316068222 |
| Item weight  | 181 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 144 pages |
| Publication date  | 7 May 2009 |
| Publisher  | Little, Brown US |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a gem!
*by P***R on 21 July 2024*

When you open it, you’ll be surprised how little text is on each page. But it works. It’s a commencement speech from a US college, and the fragments are so easy to read - it lets the message hit home much more effectively. A pity we lost this brilliant man.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Short but brilliant.
*by R***E on 14 November 2017*

I'm in the process of reading everything the man wrote in his tragically curtailed life. This essay is thought provoking and, as ever, brilliantly written and, to use one of many words Ihabe learned from the man himself, slightly pleonastic. Go on, look it up.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Words from the wise
*by J***N on 16 March 2016*

Never having previously encountered any of this author's books, I bought this as a Christmas present for my daughter and read it myself a couple of days ago. It's a very short, precise piece of advice on living compassionately, the concomitant difficulties in feeling empathy ("Think about it: There is no experience you’ve had that you were not at the absolute center of”), and a briskly-constructed argument about "deciding to worship [...] some sort of god or spiritual-type being [because] pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive". Although it only takes about half-an-hour to read, there's plenty to ponder here. Recommended.

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