Like a pitcher who can’t get his first pitch over for a strike, after only one week of Infinite Summer I find myself behind and trying to catch up. This is not for any lack of a desire on my part, I’m actually really enjoying IJ and, although at 60 pages in I’ve barely cracked the book, I’m finding it less challenging, so far, than I’ve found DFW’s other fictional works.
My  very bad behindness briefly aside, I was pleased to discover that a Howling Fantods reference comes early in the book. (page 45 to be exact) I’d always wondered which of DFW’s books the term came from but didn’t realize that “fantods” wasn’t a DFW creation. Guess I should have picked up a dictionary before I made that assumption.
So, will I survive this bad beginning? Truth is, I don’t care. I’ve begun the journey and I’ll push through to the end. But for now I’m not so far behind that I won’t catch up before week two is over and out…