Kate and Day and the billowing shape (p. 648)
Kate Gompert sits cross-legged on the couch with her head all the way forward so her forehead touches her foot. It looks like some kind of spiritually advanced yoga position or stretching exercise, but it’s really just the way Kate Gompert has been sitting on the sofa all night every night since Wednesday’s free-for-all unpleasantness with Lenz and Gately in the streetlet, from which the whole House is still reeling and spiritually palsied.
Context
The insomniac hours in the Ennet House living room: Kate's body folded shut into itself — mistakable for spiritual advancement, actually collapse held in one posture all night every night — the physical setup for the billowing-shape exchange, her toneless voice issuing "from out of the circle formed by her crossed legs."