Pond Simply
“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys, how’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’ ”
-David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion About Living a Compassionate Life (New York: Little, Brown
and Company, 2009), 3–4.
“ ‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”
-lbid., 53.
“being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to. . . . How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely imperially alone, day in and day out.”
-lbid., 54, 60.
Pond Simply
“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys, how’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’ ”
-David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion About Living a Compassionate Life (New York: Little, Brown
and Company, 2009), 3–4.
“ ‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”
-lbid., 53.
“being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to. . . . How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely imperially alone, day in and day out.”
-lbid., 54, 60.