<story><title>Fish don&apos;t know they&apos;re in water</title><url>http://sivers.org/fish</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwillis</author><text>This post borrows heavily from the famous &quot;This is Water&quot; speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College. It&apos;s well worth a read. Full text of the speech available here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sivers</author><text>Wild!  I don&apos;t remember ever having read that, but I must have years ago, and the metaphor stuck.&lt;p&gt;Thanks for letting me know.  I updated the post to give credit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fish don&apos;t know they&apos;re in water</title><url>http://sivers.org/fish</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwillis</author><text>This post borrows heavily from the famous &quot;This is Water&quot; speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College. It&apos;s well worth a read. Full text of the speech available here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thisrod</author><text>I suspect all these derive from a Buddhist parable, in which a novice fish asks a master fish to define the &quot;sea&quot; that the master keeps mentioning.  The original point was different: the master&apos;s description is necessarily mystical, but the sea is real.</text></comment>