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

[David Morris]

On 7/18/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> "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.

Right.
This was my take on it too, only you've fleshed out the nuances a bit more:

"not all their faces on the wanted bills" follows "no matter what
their ignorance of why."   Those sent out to kill the plute's problems
sometimes had official "whys," ie. wanted bills.  But sometimes they
were sent to kill those without their faces on wanted bills.