Not P but a DFW footnote

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 03:05:12 UTC 2023


The following is from a footnote to David Foster Wallace's *Big Red Son*
regarding adult industry jargon:

*Beam* denotes a straight-on deep-focus view of a dilated and wood-ready
orifice.

>From which sense of the word "beam" did this meaning come about?


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