The Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

... those 50 grams of resin-soaked dope, which had been so potent that on the second day it had given him an anxiety attack so paralyzing he had gone to the bathroom in a Tufts University commemorative ceramic stein to avoid leaving the bedroom...

The parishes around N.O. had been having a spate or outbreak of a certain Latin-origin breed of sinister tropical flying roaches.... and that kept being found swarming on New Orleans infants, at night, in their cribs... and that reportedly fed on the mucus in the babies' eyes... and were reportedly blinding them...