THE BOOK OF ABSINTHE: A CULTURAL HISTORY Terrain Crate • Frozen Lakes

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Escorts jockey for altitude

Each sports twinned heavy las carbines on its hull

Eager to obtain the land on these worlds

flipping the sand timers

THE BOOK OF ABSINTHE: A CULTURAL HISTORY Terrain Crate • Frozen LakesLa Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous "special" ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins