Not P but DFW: elbow one another

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, James and Mark.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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