GR translation: never to go any further into danger than its dapperness

[Mike Jing]

V676.5-12, P689.11-18   As for Maximilian, he has a natural sense of
rhythm, which means all rhythms, up to and including the cosmic. So he will
never be where the fathomless manhole awaits, where the safe falls from the
high window shrieking like a bomb—he is a pilot through Earth’s baddest
minefields, if we only stay close to him, be where he is as much as we
can—yet Maximilian’s doom is never to go any further into danger than its
dapperness, its skin-exciting first feel. . . .

What exactly is Maximilian’s fatal flaw? Not being able to really face
danger?