Not P but DFW: forked dorsally

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 10:52:22 UTC 2025


I think so… she is forked from the back look the guy has. No?

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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