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READING 1 This is Water David Foster Wallace Review This is water, subtitled Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life, is a publication of the address David Foster Wallace delivered to students at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 2005. It is the first of Wallace’s posthumous works – he hanged himself in September, aged 46. His writing styles: One of the distinctions of his writing is its resistance to compression. His sentences are flowing and convoluted. Wallace rebelled against conciseness: he ran from glibness or sound bite. His writing challenges reade