“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”
“...People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.”
“Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows.”
“Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.”
“All media work us over completely.”
“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...”