I am the Center of the Universe

Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence.

- David Foster Wallace from his commencement speech at Kenyon University, 2005.  Retrieved from Webarchive, since the original seems to be gone

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