Fairway bag full of money / more plot recap retread

[Mark Kohut]

I think she just left it in the Limo. It was handed back to her in the
Limo; she had said she could not accept it and when in this novel has she
not meant what she has said? ...
March, no longer who she used to be, dealing dope as Joseph reminds, wants
her to be as guilty as she (in a different way). Dante among others knew
this phenomenon.

The word "there" on the end of March's sentence is a subtlety; Pynchon did
not write on your lap, in your hand; it is on the LIMO seat next to Maxine
I suggest and
her retort "Why, when I don't even know how much it's supposed to be to
begin with, see what I'm saying" is
sly and telling.......I think "see what I'm saying" is her telling March
she had not given Igor a fee for any legitimate work therefore
this could not be the payment of a legitimate fee. Therefore as she has
said, "I can't accept this".

Besides what I wrote above, I think Maxine is much too savvy to ever take
money like that from such types. Blackmail, implication,
accessory, arrest......she would be afraid of whatever might happen
unexpectedly. ......

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aha - but what about this line?
>
> [March]
> “Remember to count what’s in your Fairway bag, there.”
>
>  [Maxine]
>          “Why, when I don’t even know how much it’s supposed to be to begin
> with, see what I’m saying.”
>
>
>           I ask you -
>       Are those the words of a woman who handed Igor back the bag?
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From my first reading I have always believed Maxine did not take the
> > money....Now I have gone back and I think that is clear...
> >
> > "I can't accept this", she clearly says...
> >
> > "And who'd be hiring me exactly?"
> >
> > Shrug, smile, nothing more specific.
> > "March, what's with this guy? And what are you doing there?"--then to
> > Joseph's obs..
> >
> > Maxine, who turned down a lot more legal money to settle for what she
> > thought was OK---$500--would not take that
> > money....she loses her whole character as an honest forensic detective
> > despite decertification from the Accounting Board.
> >
> > She doesn't work for no Russian mob and she is not even on a slippery
> > slope.
> >
> > In my reading.
> >
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