GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

[Monte Davis]

Yes, designated for deliberate shaming (as in all modern armies’ endless
campaigns against VD). Not a health measure in itself, as contagion via
toilet was unlikely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22VD_CAN_BE_CURED_BUT_THERE%27S_NO_MEDICI
NE_FOR_REGRET%22_-_NARA_-_515957.jpg

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Jing
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 4:40 PM
To: jochen stremmel
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Subject: Re: GR translation: scarlet VD toilet

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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