"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."
--Ernest Hemingway
Distillation de l'Absinthe (Distillation of Absinthe)
Laboratoire de la Maison Ed. Joanne, a Ivry
Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'épicerie et des industries annexes
A. Miniot 1904