{"id":4229,"date":"2009-04-27T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2009-04-27T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T01:33:00","slug":"this-is-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/this-is-water\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Water\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just struck me that in his famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalia.org\/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html\" title=\"2005 Kenyon Commencement Address -- David Foster Wallace\">2005 Kenyon Commencement Address<\/a>, David Foster Wallace is basically teaching Vipassan&#257;. 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