Fairway bag full of money / more plot recap retread

[Joseph Tracy]

Yes I did realize that because I looked up the references in Kindle, but I think it odd that the phrase recurs.  Wait, ok I see, it is a Supermarket bag, they are all capitalized.  My dumb.

> On Feb 12, 2022, at 4:40 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fairway is a supermarket chain
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> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 4:00 PMgym  Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto: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.
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> 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.
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> 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? 
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> > On Feb 12, 2022, at 2:25 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com <mailto:michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > Aha - but what about this line?
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> > [March]
> > “Remember to count what’s in your Fairway bag, there.”
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> > [Maxine]
> >         “Why, when I don’t even know how much it’s supposed to be to begin
> > with, see what I’m saying.”
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> >          I ask you -
> >      Are those the words of a woman who handed Igor back the bag?
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> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >> 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..
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> >> 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.
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> >> In my reading.
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