Not P but DFW: forked dorsally

[Mark Kohut]

I think it means she is sitting on his knee---forked----her back to the
obese cellphone retailer
and the photographer wants to take her picture---from the front of her----
and wants her to make sure
she fixes herself so her pussy hairs are more visible......

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Big Red Son *(from*
> Consider the Lobster and Other Essays*):
>
> A second-tier Arrow Video starlet in a G-string poses for a photo, forked
> dorsally over the knee of a morbidly obese cellphone retailer from suburban
> Philadelphia. The guy taking the picture, whose CES nametag says Hi and
> that his name is Sherm, addresses the starlet as “babe” and asks her to
> readjust so as to “give us a little more bush down there.”
>
> What exactly does "forked dorsally" mean here?
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