GR translation: bourgeois terms

[Mark Kohut]

"Reduced'.....not a full understanding of "the Rocket's terrible
passage"....but one

The adjective bourgeois means relating to or typical of the middle class.
If someone says, "Oh, how bourgeois!" it's probably an insult, meaning
you're preoccupied with middle-class small-mindedness. As a noun, a
bourgeois is a member of the middle class, originally a member of the
middle class in France.



On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 4:12 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V239.21-24, P242.21-24   So was the Rocket’s terrible passage reduced,
> literally, to bourgeois terms, terms of an equation such as that elegant
> blend of philosophy and hardware, abstract change and hinged pivots of real
> metals which describes motion under the aspect of yaw control:
>
> What exactly does "bourgeois terms" mean here?
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