But the interval is never fixed once and for all, it flows with time and remains, like power and status, renegotiable. In the case of keeping someone waiting, to cite the example of one of the most ordinary and most banal situations, the time of others is disposed of by their time remaining unoccupied. Language has no expression for the person who keeps someone waiting, but only for the person waiting. Yet even the obvious powerlessness of the person waiting, in which differentials of power and status are expressed, is limited and open to counter-strategies.
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