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Tom Poland Columnist Our Changing World Lessons From a Dry County I grew up in a dry county. The only adult beverages I heard of as a youth were Pabst Blue Ribbon and moonshine. I don’t recall any referendums to change things. There must have been a few though because an old fellow told me that every time an alcohol referendum came up, the preachers and bootleggers defeated it. Growing up in a dry county Kem R. Smith, CPA • Accounting • Payroll • New Businesses • Taxes We Can Guide You Through Your Financial Matters 158 Langford Rd. Suite B 786-5200 left me somewhat unworldly regarding drinks. Absinthe was a word I never heard until I was silver-haired. I knew nothing about it. I did know that if you make something illegal, people will find a way to get around the law. Remember Prohibition? Didn’t work. Moreover making something forbidden romanticizes it. The bold Appalachian whiskey runners who sowed the seeds for NASCAR come to mind. They were folk heroes. There will always be those, however, who believe you can legislate good behavior. You can’t. Take the truly great writers. Drinking and crazy behavior contributed to their aura. Some scholars believe drinking enhanced their artistic abilities; others believe alcohol simply let the big writers forget their problems a while. Here are a few ... Tennessee Williams, Come by and get a new look for Summer! 428-3 McNulty Road, Blythewood 735-1050 Edgar Allen Poe, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway, the most notorious writer-drinker of them all. It was Hemingway who introduced absinthe to me—a drink romanticized more than any other, not the least because it was banned. Strongly associated with southern France, it’s an emerald-green liqueur distilled from wormwood, anise, and other aromatics, all steeped in alcohol. Genuine absinthe is 70 to 80 percent alcohol. It packs a punch and in Hemingway’s time some people believed it enhanced creativity, artists and writers especially. I was reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, in Spain appropriately enough, when I came across this line. Absinthe “takes the place of the evening papers, of all the old evenings in cafés, of all the chestnut trees that would be in bloom now JavaNookBooks GRAND OPENING! • Used Books and Collectibles • Out of Town Newspapers • Free WIFI • Fax & Copy Services 2 Great Author Signings May 9, 2009 Sonya Gayten Tom Poland 10:00 am - Noon 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 428-1 McNulty Rd. (Inside Cafe Vienna) 803-361-3442 www.javanookbooks.com in this month . . . .” It sounds lovely. If anyone knew absinthe’s effects, Hemingway did. “Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.” Sounds crazy too. (Who would throw a knife into a piano?) I suppose Hemingway couldn’t resist referring to woodworms, for wormwood is a prime constituent of absinthe, known also as “La Fée Verte” (The Green Fairy), a tribute to its alleged seductive powers. Yes, some consider it an aphrodisiac. A lot of writers and artists drank absinthe with wild abandon and it acquired a reputation as a dangerous substance. Van Gogh, Picasso, and other artists featured absinthe in their works, and some went insane; some committed suicide. The prohibitionists found it easy to portray absinthe as an addictive psychoactive drug. By 1915, the United States and most European countries had banned absinthe. It faded away with pockets of underground drinkers here and there. In its heyday, it enjoyed a cultlike following that had much to do with how you drink it. The French do it this way. Pour a dose into a glass. Place a sugar cube on a flat perforated spoon, and rest it across the glass. Drip iced water over the sugar cube. True absintheurs drop the water slowly, watching each drip cut a milky swath through the emerald absinthe. That green creamy appearance, by the way, is what caused absinthe •See Lessons, Page 17 The Blythewood Leader • April 23,2009 • Page 9
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