ATDTDA (13): Reef's dead, 362-364

[kelber at mindspring.com]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Nightingale <isreading at btinternet.com>

>
>"If Capital's own books showed a balance in clear favor of damnation, if
>these plutes were undeniably evil hombres, then how much more so were those
>who took care of their problems for them, in no matter what ignorance of
>why, not all of their faces on the wanted bills, in that darkly textured
>style that was more about the kind of remembering, the unholy longing going
>on out here, than of any real-life badman likeness...." (362)
>
>1. I agree with Mike that the passage refers, in the first instance, to law
>officers: "faces on the wanted bills" signify the power of the law to
>determine who is guilty, so "not all of their faces on the wanted bills"
>signifies the fact that some "evil hombres" will not be considered guilty,
>because (like Burgess) they are doing their duty etc.


I took the "not all of their faces on the wanted bills" to be making a distinction between the 
Duece Kindred types (faces on the wanted bills) and the Foley Walker types who do the bidding of the plutes without getting their hands muddied.

Laura