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...Mescalito, Jimson weed and "little smoke" if they cause ypu to meet up with a cricketlike being with a warty head, or a 100-ft.-high gnat with spiky hair and drooling jaws? Please pass me an aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1973 | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...column of singing light, and a cricketlike being with a green warty head. He heard awesome and uninterpretable rumbles from the dead lava hills. After smoking humito and talking to a bilingual coyote, he saw the "guardian of the other world" rise before him as a hundred-foot-high gnat with spiky tufted hair and drooling jaws. After rubbing his body with an unguent made from datura, the terrified anthropologist experienced all the sensations of flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...hurled up past us in the night, reaching heights twice that of the Empire State Building. The night turned from black to red, and the air smelled like sulfuric fumes from 100 billion burned-out kitchen matches. It was as if the twin-engine Piper aircraft were a mere gnat hovering at the open door of a blast furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Fire and Destruction | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...game of safeties. The Crimson picked up 16 points on them, and the Nieman fellows scored their only two points when the Human Gnat dumped Crimson quarterback Mike O'Rourke in his own end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime, Fresh From Win, Face Box Jox | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...aggressive play of "Gentleman Doug" Schoen was the only highlight of the offensive unit. Schoen squashed the Human Gnat, a child-like pass rusher who harried the Crimson QB all afternoon. The boy's father invited Schoen out to the parking lot after the game, but Schoen sent his regrets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime, Fresh From Win, Face Box Jox | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

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