Absinthe quotes: Alfred Jarry
Published by on May 12th, 2009 Comments Off
“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so solvent and corrosive that out of all substances, it has been chosen for washing and scourings, and a drop of water, added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddies it.”*
Alfred Jarry
Poet and playwright (1873-1907)*And so he drank his absinthe straight . . . and when he couldn’t afford that, he took ether.
