What an insightful dinner!

If both David Foster Wallace and Tori Wallace were to come together for a dinner, the topic of discussion would be the fact of how the people view the world and the way they actually should view it are different. David Wallace would explain to Tori Morrison how he liked her use of the children in the story to explain the fact to the women that she cannot tell them what everything means-- in order to understand they have to gain their own knowledge through experience. Morrison would commend Wallace on the fact that he realized that “the real value of real education has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with awareness”. Wallace would then explain that he knows that we must constantly remain cognitive and try to be less self-centered in the way we think. He would go on to further say that he believed the way the women thought that certain parts of life already have a predefined meaning is wrong because he believed  that we as humans get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. Morrison would comment on how some things do, already, have a predefined meaning, but just because they do does not mean they are less important. They are not just there for the sake of being because they already have meaning.  They would conclude the discussion by saying that we as humans must be like the fish, in Wallace’s story, who remind themselves constantly that they are in water so they do not get caught up in an archetypical lifestyle to make their life more abstract. That in doing so we would actually see the world as it should be viewed.