GR Translation: she has lost her surface

[David Morris]

Katje is usually ALL surface: style, facade, defences, polished outer
layer.  In this instance all those layers have dropped away.

David Morris

On Thursday, January 1, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V545.30-38  She only raises her eyebrows. It was a shitty thing to say.
> Remorse, or some late desire to be pure, rush into his blood like dope.
>        “But—” astonished to feel himself beginning to collapse, like a
> stack of rifles, around her feet, caught in her gravitation, distances
> abolished, waveforms unmeasurable, “Katje . . . if I could never betray
> you—”
>        He has fallen: she has lost her surface. She is staring at him
> amazed
>        “Even if the price for that were . . . betraying others, hurting .
> . . or killing others—then it wouldn’t matter who, or how many, no, not if
> I could be your safety, Katje, your perfect—”
>
> What does "she has lost her surface" mean?
>
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