An Evil Guest - Big Questions, Major SPOILERS

Gwern Branwen · 04 Jan 2010, 05:50 · from 2010-January.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:50:11 -0500
Subject: (urth) An Evil Guest - Big Questions, Major SPOILERS
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:23 PM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).

I'm still catching up, since I *just* got it and read it, but it is
without a doubt an ATF reference. There's even a Waco allusion in
there!*

* If I'm not reading too much into the veiled comments about their
stubbornness and propensity to violence.

-- 
gwern

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