An Evil Guest - Big Questions, Major SPOILERS

Matthew Keeley · 21 Sep 2008, 22:40 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:40:08 -0400
Subject: (urth) An Evil Guest - Big Questions, Major SPOILERS
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Spoilers--I also finished this morning.
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> I can't answer all of that, but "Arthur Thomas Franklin" is a
> government agency--presumably slang for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
> and Firearms--the ATF (now officially Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
> Explosives, but still ATF).
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> A "defective" child is probably just a child born with a genetic
> defect or other inborn condition.  I took it as a reference to the
> current practice of aborting Down Syndrome fetuses rather than a hint
> as to an elaborate regime of genetic engineering.
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Re: ATF: I should have remembered about the ATF.

Re: defective: I considered that, but "defective" has the ring of
manufacture about it; as in "I returned the defective TV to the store." And
these aren't kids being aborted from the womb: this is "post-parturition"
(i.e. after-birth) abortion. Are we supposed to assume that there are people
who would a) give birth to a child with Down Syndrome and then b) abort it
after living with said child for a few years. I don't think anyone good
enough to do a) would be cold-hearted enough to do b).

-Matt
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