I am so grateful he literally opened my heart and eyes on this issue , and that I was able to see and understand how wrong I had been , to repent , and submit myself to the Lord , His Word , and His loving and protective call for obedience to Scripture . I immediately called Bobby and told him I had been wrong , that I now agreed with the Bible and that I knew I had been taught , believed and perpetrated false teachings . He was excited but appropriately skeptical .

A: What might have happened if my heart and eyes had not been opened ?

I do n't know how long it was but it seemed like for every , I yelled out if you do n't get over here I am going to drown . Time went by I yelled it out again this time stronger and more passionately . I was tired being choked and was struggling swimming with the extra weight of my three year old son . Ok , so the panic hit me I yelled out I am going to drown if you do n't get over here .

A: What may happen to me as i struggle to swim ?

Sure , DFW made you work -- the footnotes , the endnotes , the digressions and philosophical asides , the brain - stretching vocabulary and sentence structure -- but it was totally worth it . You feel smarter after you read his writing , you feel you ' ve been somewhere you did n't even know existed , like you ' ve peeked through all these oddly - shaped windows in weird buildings and seen all the fascinating things happening right on the other side of the glass . DFW never yanked your chain or threw stuff in just to make himself look clever -- he really was the genuine article .

A: Why does the narrator think DFW stands out ?

Ok back to Frankfurt there was n't really anything I desired to see here , it was just a stopover before we headed to Switzerland so we just kind of wander around and enjoyed the fact that we were finally on our vacation . This is us at the airport waiting to board our plane to Frankfurt Typical train station Ryan 's first cup of very strong European coffee . It was sooooo strong .

A:
What may happen after Ryan has the coffee ?