GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[jochen stremmel]

If I remember it right it's at the end of the row.

2013/10/5 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> Oh, I get it.  So it's a specially designated toilet indicated by its color.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:35 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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