Posted by EscherDementian on January 23, 2004, at 2:21:25
In reply to Re: Absinthe, thujone, THC » SLS, posted by Ame Sans Vie on January 17, 2004, at 10:13:31
Van Gogh could not afford absinthe. He sometimes ate his paint which contained the lead that causes visual alterations in toxic levels and might have driven him mad, but severe depression also ran in his family and took his dearly loved brother to suicide. After cutting off his ear, Van Gogh sent it to the woman he was obsessed with, which by some accounts was a 'lady of the night'- unaffordable to him. Other accounts say she was his matronly patron landlady. He was volatile with violent rages, which caused his best friend the artist Gauguin to terminate being roommates and support Van Gogh's scheme of creating an artist's sanctuary.
i think you might be thinking of the french artist Tolouse-Lautrec who painted and sketched the decadent people of Parisian nights in the late 1800s and was nearly just as famous for being an absinthe addict?
Not an artist but a writer, wasn't Edgar Allen Poe into absinthe too? Erhm, hmm... maybe that was opium. He was an alcoholic, and they DID get to inject morphine and/or cocaine in his day. But he was poor, too. Is his writing similar to the "absinthe-like" consciousness you speak of, Ame Sans Vie?
Lord Shelly and his wife Mary indulged in absinthe regularly. Don't know how factual it is, but the film _Gothic_ was a fun spiral into their absinthe madness and her inspired beginning of "Frankenstein" ...
But then again, i may be wrong~ ;)
my own memories are frighteningly spun in this dark night of my soul currently.
It sure is good to see a familiar name here still, Ames Sans Vie. How are you?Escher
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