生命中最简单又最困难的事(被《时代杂志》评为“对知识分子的最后演讲”,与乔布斯一起入选“美国最具影响力的十大毕业典礼演讲”。 Youtube一周400万次点击。作家蒋方舟倾情推荐!THIS IS WATER:some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, ... a compassionate life)

"Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others."-- Provided by publisher Ben shu cong sheng huo zhong zui xian er yi jian de ping chang zhi shi ru shou, tao lun ru he bai tuo sheng ming zhong de zhong fu dan diao, huo de nei xin zi you, bao chi yi shi de qing xing xian huo