Not P but DFW: forked dorsally

[Mike Jing]

The part that's confusing to me is "dorsally". The same editor thought it
means she is lying on the guy's knee, which doesn't seem right at all. So
it just means she has her back to the obese cellphone retailer and that's
all?


On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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