Not P but DFW: elbow one another

[Mark Kohut]

no...it just means elbowing someone standing next to you like "get this" or
"look at that"

On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 12:29 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*):
>
> This weirdness may account for some of the complex emotional intercourse
> taking place between the performers and fans at the Adult CES. The patrons
> may leer and elbow one another at a distance, but by the time the men get
> to the front of the line and face the living incarnation of their VCR’s
> fantasy-babe, most of them turn into quivering goggle-eyed schoolboys,
> sheepish and salivaless and damp.
>
> Does the word "elbow" here refer to a nudge or jostling for position?
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