Horrid Stories From The Torrid History Of Absinthe In Gay Paris
Click to viewArtemisia Synthia (wormwood), Green Anise, 45-75% alchohol by volume !! Often diluted with water before imbibing.
Absinthe is the stuff of writers, poets, artists, and madmen . . .
The Art of Absinthe : ..History of abuse
The Absinthe Drinkers 1876 Painting | Edgar Degas
The scene is hypnotic. And the green fairy seems to hold our female protagonist under a spell of a similar kind.
Her eyes betray a nausea akin to Roquentin’s, “as timid as the dawn.” The formality of her dress juxtaposes
the dopiness of her physicality in a way that is almost comic.
The Absinthe Drinker Painting by Edouard Manet 1859
The Absinthe Drinker : Viktor Oliva : 1901
The Absinth Drinkers - Edvard Munch Paintings 1890
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“After the first glass of Absinthe”, Oscar Wilde wrote of the popular nineteenth-century intoxicant, known too by its slang moniker ‘the green fairy’, “you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”
dr. π (pi)
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