In his transcription, David Foster Wallace claims that short and didactic stories are an imperative particle of the commencement ceremonies. The author brings an example of two parables. The first one is the story of fish dwelling in water. The point of this story is that an enormous amount of stuff people are mechanically certain of is completely erratic and even deluded. The second widely used parable is the one related to the believer and the atheist, both of them arguing about the existence of God. This story is to highlight the idea that two different people may happen to have totally distinct viewpoints of the exact same issue. Accordingly, every parable contains a wise context. Afterwards, the author stresses the importance of the definition
