I ’m having a 1920s - themed party for my natal day in a few weeks and was all excited to swear out sometime fashioned 1920s - style boozing . I thought it would be a perfect excuse to try out out absinthe , which I have wanted to do ever since the tame - down stuff and nonsense was legalize in the U.S. a couple of years ago . Alas , a little research has dashed my hopes , because absinthe was declared illegal long before the Roaring Twenties pip . But if I ever do get the chance to give it a shot , I ’ll be in good ( disturbed ? ) creative company :
4 . Van Goghis rumored to have chopped his ear off during an absinthe bout . Some enquiry has suggested that it ’s even the reason that he used so much yellow in his works " “ thujone , a component of absinthe back in the 24-hour interval ( it ’s not in the sound stuff in the U.S. these days ) , has been testify to fuel creativityandcause yellow - tinged visual sensation .
5 . Emile Zolafavored the greenish drinkable to perturb him from all of his personal troubles . Even so , he knew what the swallow could do if abused : in " L’Assommoir,“ he wrote about an absinthe addict who " undress himself stark raw in the Rue Saint - Martin and died doing the polka . “
9 . Aleister Crowleyloved absinthe , but that ’s no surprise " “ he tried ( and enjoyed ) just about every hallucinogen in the book , including tincture of opium , opium , cocaine , mescaline and heroin .
10 . Even past presidentswere sleep with to imbibe the emerald from time to clock time . America ’s most famous absinthe joint ( arguably ) was the " Old Absinthe House" in New Orleans , which was renamed The Absinthe Room when unexampled management take over in 1874 and began serve " French - style" absinthe . The Room boasted a celebrity clientele that included both Roosevelts and William Howard Taft , plus Oscar Wilde , P.T. Barnum , Mark Twain , Jenny Lind , Enrico Caruso , Robert E. Lee , Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra . It ’s still there today .
Have any of you ever attempt it ? Is it dependable or complete ? Should I just save my money ?
