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> In that quote, Wallace is just morphing, conflating, and fudging the definition of the word "worship". That quotation is one paragraph in a much longer essay
by throw0101a 6y ago
> In that quote, Wallace is just morphing, conflating, and fudging the definition of the word "worship".
That quotation is one paragraph in a much longer essay. It may be useful to go to the full source:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water
* https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI (where he originally delivered it as a speech)
The key phrase is "day-to day trenches of adult life".