There has been a book gathering much dust on my shelf since July, 2009: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I have now begun to read, but I’m not used to being presented with such an amazing density of verbal firepower. Nor am I used to paragraphs running for five pages.
My reading is at a glacial pace, certainly presenting a challenge facing these 980 closely-spaced pages. But, we’ll see.
In a dim light... 