Fairway bag full of money / more plot recap retread

[Mark Kohut]

So we differ. Nothing new.....

She would not ever take that money I say.....She refused, what was it 10
times $500,  when she lowered her fee earlier. Therefore never this now.



On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 4:01 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I don’t agree that she refused the money, the text seems to indicate
> pretty strongly that there was hesitance but  that she did take it, but I
> do disagree that she is owned by the Dashkov as a result. It was offered as
> payment for saving their butts; the retainer bit was only an afterthought
> to make it acceptable. She never accepts that because it would require a
> responsible party hiring her. Her only legal problem is taxes.   She can
> pay what she owes on what is in the bag as  business income if she wants to
> stay legal. Generally, I am pretty sure the IRS is not concerned with where
> it came from if they are getting payment. I think P would have been
> explicit about refusing it.
>   There is also this line: “Hop in.” As she does so, Maxine notices that
> March is sitting there counting a lapful of greenbacks of her own.
>
> Why refer to them as “ of her own” unless Maxine has accepted what she has
> been handed as her own. She is comparing 2 lapfuls of greenbacks .
>   But why count it if there is no specific agreed amount and none has been
> mentioned. And why even think about counting it if you have refused it.
>
> Fairway bags show up 3 times: first as a bag of coffee( Dashkov is a more
> serious speed freak), 2nd as the money bag,  3rd as a theoritical Fairway
> bag full of potato peels on the trash heap by the inlet, a bag among all
> the thrown away fairway bags.
>    I never used this term or even heard it before BE. In CA we call them
> tote bags or gym bags. Is this the common term in NYC?
>
>
>
>
> > On Feb 12, 2022, at 2:25 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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