GR Translation: she has lost her surface

[David Morris]

Even more, PP has collapsed his defenses too. They are both exposed, and
ugly.

On Thursday, January 1, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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