GR translation: except now as an erotic category

[Monte Davis]

​Gottfried becomes an archetype or abstraction for Blicero's fantasy (in a
sense, always has been). He's his type.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V758.24-32, P773.32-40   Two lights wink out. “Stecker 1 und 2 gefallen,”
> Moritz reports. The Stotz plugs lie blasted on the ground, tossing in the
> splash of flame. On gravity feed, the flame is bright yellow. Then the
> turbine begins to roar. The flame suddenly turns blue. The sound of it
> grows to full cry. The Rocket stays a moment longer on the steel table,
> then slowly, trembling, furiously muscular, it begins to rise. Four seconds
> later it begins to pitch over. But the flame is too bright for anyone to
> see Gottfried inside, except now as an erotic category, hallucinated out of
> that blue violence, for purposes of self-arousal.
>
> In what sense is the word "category" used here?
>
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