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Alabama

Used as a comparison for Scotland early in the novel, this southern state is noted for performed religious fervor, among other things. It is also often held up as an object of ridicule; the comparison opens the possibility that the primary milieu of the novel is similarly held up to ridicule.

ATHENA

Named after the Classical goddess of wisdom, war, and craft, this program is the product of a criminally-connected professor. Interestingly, it turns to eliminating criminal elements, making the name fitting and the origin a bit of an irony.

Black Hat

A term for unscrupulous hackers and those involved in illicit computing activity, it calls back to old Western movies in which the relative moral status of characters could be determined by hat color. Many such movies were filmed in monochrome, making gradations of color difficult to track—but not gradations of brightness.

Bread Mix

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