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How can something be both a banal platitude and have life-or-death importance? Pick a concept from “This Is Water” that has a cliché tied to it and expand on its deeper truths. Why has this cliché lost meaning, and how is it relevant to today’s society?
Wallace approaches the act of giving a speech from a metafiction angle. What effects does this have? How might it empower or detract from the points he makes in “This Is Water”? Can you cite parallels between metafiction and his speech’s lessons?
By David Foster Wallace
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