Thursday, January 7, 2010
Absinthe Drinkers
Yesterday, was simply a failure of imagination.
Must imagine better tomorrow. Tomorrow, fail again, but fail better.
Here is how, long ago, some sought to up their imagination... through the green demon, Absinthe.
Above, Viktor Oliva's painting "The Absinthe Drinker," which hangs in the Cafe Slavia, Prague.
Another absinthe drinker, Hemingway, had a favorite cocktail, Death in the Afternoon - a measure of absinthe in a champagne glass, fill to the top with Bollinger...
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