NP | ZK translation: on line for tickets

[Paul Mackin]

It sounds like it means waiting in line to buy tickets. He is imagining
himself vis a vis the woman, performing an arduous task for her, her
enjoying the favor, but rather trivially.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P207.16-19   He is a man on line for tickets to a ballet that a woman
> wants to see and he is willing to wait for hours while she tends her
> schoolchildren. She is the woman, rigid in her seat, watching a dancer
> splice the air, fingertips to toes.
>
> What does "on line for tickets" mean?
>
>
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