wordplay: dorsal
Fresh off the plane from Varuna with a shiny new word from an incredible book I ought to have read a long time ago. Full run down on the week at Varuna very soon…
dorsal a. of, pertaining to, or situated at the back, or dorsum.
The Lisbon girls were thirteen (cecilia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary) and seventeen (Therese). They were short, round-buttocked in denim, with roundish cheeks that recalled that same dorsal softness.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides.
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