GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[jochen stremmel]

Venereal Disease.

2013/10/5 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> V452.17-24    Coefficients, ja, ja. . . . Achtfaden flings himself
> disconsolately on the scarlet VD toilet way down at the very end of the row.
> He knows about coefficients. In Aachen once, for a while, he and his
> colleagues could stand in the forward watchtower: look out into the country
> of the barbarians through Hermann and Wieselsberger’s tiny window. Terrific
> compressions, diamond shadows writhing like snakes. Often the sting was
> bigger than the model itself—the very need to measure interfered with the
> observations. That should have been a clue right there.
>
> What does the "VD" stand for in "scarlet VD toilet"?
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