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

Keith keithsz at mac.com
Wed Jul 18 20:49:56 CDT 2007


"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)

"not all of their faces on the wanted bills" refers to the plute's  
"problems" which are being "taken care of" by hired hands who don't  
even know why they are killing folks (i.e., some of their faces  
aren't even on wanted bills). Some of these problems' faces *are* on  
wanted bills because they have been targeted by the "law," but even  
these images of the victims painted by the law are illusions of  
memory, distorted by an unholy longing shared by plutes and lawmen  
alike.







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