AtD showing vs. telling

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> Fear....."fear was all around"  and
>
> Longing......
>

longing was in one of the passages that James Wood singled out not to
like, right?

- page 362: "Sometimes he was just after the explosion, it was like
telling them in a voice too loud to ignore to fuck off.  And sometimes
it was so he wouldn't feel nagging at him the unfinished business with
Deuce and Sloat, wherever they were these days.  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..."

what Woods objects to, among other things, is how this is really
friggin' hard to parse, and appears to trail off without achieving a
worthy expression.

The list worked out on this passage during the AtD read...I'm not
remembering being completely convinced by any explanation offered,
including my own.

I'd like to supply a gloss here, but - like the long sentence in
Chapter 9 of V. - I'm just not ready to actually parse it myself.

does that make me a bad person?

Amazon search shows "longing" it occurs 3 times in the 300-399 page
range, and a few other times in the book.