David Foster Wallace, novelist, Kenyon College, 2005.
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 over at
the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
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