A Voss and Pike Casefile: The Early Days
Section 35: Marian's Notebook
Page after page, in Marian's quick left-slanting hand. Becker, 1967: whose side are we on? We can't not choose. The only dishonesty is pretending we haven't. Tombs and Whyte: take the standpoint of the underdog and apply it to the overdogs. And, boxed: Marsland = Roland. Sociology as policy consultant. Not wicked. Just useful. Useful to whom?
Further down: Roland isn't a villain. He's a very good man being very useful. That's the dangerous kind.
The last entry, two days old: Tell him about the licence Thursday. At the quay. I want him standing where it happens before he votes on what counts as a problem.
Marian's own notes frame the choice between standing with the underdog and serving the state, name Keast's "engaged sociology" as the problem, and record her plan to confront him about "the licence" at the quay on the night she died.