V--2nd, a step-back to Chap 12.

[Mark Kohut]

Remember there when Benny told Fina that he had done it....
when what he had done was nothing while she was in the bathroom getting beaten?
His move away from schlemiehl 'passivity'?

And then we learn of Benny's concern [caring] for so many?. [All women I guess].

Did not the story Mortality and Mercy in Vienna end with Siegal fleeing a huge 
shoot-out
that he instigated, that he was utterly passive about?