AtD translation: the ladies who work on the line

[Mike Jing]

I'm thinking the kitchen in a restaurant, as in "line cook", but I'm not
sure if there's any other meaning I'm not aware of.


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At risk? Soldiers lay their lives on the line. Women of certain
> professions lay their asses on the line with each new client. Oftentimes
> literally. It may be referring to production lines but they came later on.
>
> On 19 January 2018 at 08:39, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> P86.3-14   In the broken and soon-enough-interrupted dreams close to dawn
>> in particular, Webb would find himself standing at some divide, facing west
>> into a great flow of promise, something like wind, something
>> like light, free of the damaged hopes and pestilent smoke east of
>> here—sacrificial smoke, maybe, but not ascending to Heaven, only high
>> enough to be breathed in, to sicken and cut short countless lives, to
>> change the color of the daylight and deny to walkers of the night the stars
>> they remembered from younger times. He would wake to the day and its dread.
>> The trail back to that high place and the luminous promise did not run by
>> way of Cripple, though Cripple would have to serve, hopes corroded to
>> fragments—overnight whiskey, daughters of slaves, rigged faro games, the
>> ladies who work on the line.
>>
>> What does "work on the line" mean here?
>>
>>
>
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