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Article: Super freaks. (deer with atypical antlers)
- Article from:
- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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Bad hair has never been this exciting
I HAVE THIS DREAM THAT RETURNS TO HAUNT ME IN MID-JULY AND REcurs a few nights a week through Christmas: At dawn in the cold woods I see a whitetail with antlers like a Rastaman's dreadlocks in a gale. The gadzookian buck carries double-double drop tines; his main beam is moosethick, his tines are forked, bladed, twisted. The calcified shrubbery, which must weigh 14 pounds, has been crafted into a free-form architecture only Gaudi could appreciate.
If dreams are a mirror of the psyche, then I'm disturbed, for that deer prowling the forest of my subconscious is no even-antlered, smoothly sculptured fashion plate; ...