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

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

kelber
> Paul Nightingale <isreading at btinternet.com>
> >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.
> 

that was David's insight.  
-- it's hard to explain what I thought, 
because the David/Laura insight is
at the front of my mind now.

I was imputing an understood "then" before the "not all..."
-- matching it up with the "if" early in the sentence.

ie: IF Capital's own books showed a balance towards damnation,

...(THEN), not all of their faces on the wanted bills (are going
to do something or other)(which the sentence never gets close
to saying.)

obviously fallacious...much less puzzled now...thanks!

> 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
>