What is the purpose of the anecdote with which David Foster Wallace opens the speech? What is the effect of his returning to the line "This is water" again near the end of the speech and repeating it there?

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What is the purpose of the anecdote with which David Foster Wallace opens

the speech? What is the effect of his returning to the line "This is water" again near the end of the speech and repeating it there?

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Ok no idea sorry cant

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