my thoughts thus far.

sorry to be the late joiner on this. i only recently pulled the book out of the car after moving. my first thought as i started reading is, that we seem to come in without much information or explanation as to what's going on. i mean, i know he is sitting in the dean's office at some school, the tennis coach is pushing for Hal to be admitted. but the character is extremely eloquent in his head. not so much i guess out loud. then we jump to an internal dialogue regarding an addiction to marijuana. who names their kid Erdedy? On page 18, the last paragraph, he starts in on a tangent about answering machines. I could relate to the inner dialogue. like what cool things is this person doing that they aren't around to answer my call. I liked these descriptive sentences on page 27

"he could not even begin to try to see how the image of desiccated impulses floating dryly related to either him or the insect"

and

"they sounded yanked through a very small hole into the great balloon of colored silence he sat in"

I read up to page 33. I found the conversation between Hal and his Dad to be surreal. Mom, what's a pejorative clause? I have forgotten. I think the thing that interested me is that he (Hal) refers to the parental units as "Moms" and "Himself." The whole conversation discussion reminded me of the argument clinic by Monty Python.
My last question is, is Hal still only internally speaking?

This book is already wierd.