ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Keep always this dim corner for me, that I may sit while the Green Hour glides a proud pavine Time. For I am no longer in the city accursed, where Time is horsed on the white gelding Death, his spurs rusted with blood. - A.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footsteps of Dawn Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Ahhh, I think I'll like it in here. Garçon, une absinthe, s'il vous plaît! "It is time to get drunk! So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, poetry, or virtue, as you choose!" - Charles Baudelaire, "Get Drunk" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GioBrasil Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 :yay: The best drink I drank ever It's not red bull, but give you wings, and make you get out from floor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I have imbibed absinthe during three different trips to Europe. I don't know if we are permitted to share details here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChild Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I have imbibed absinthe during three different trips to Europe. I don't know if we are permitted to share details here. Oh, please do. I had a chance to try some in Wales and didn't, naively thinking I could get some back at home. Only to learn you can't buy the real deal in the States. I've always been curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I think you can get it in Quebec here....crazy french and their liquor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Oh, dear me. Did you happen to see a somewhat tall chap dressed all in white. He left this lighter on the countertop. The initials are J.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Oh, please do. I had a chance to try some in Wales and didn't, naively thinking I could get some back at home. Only to learn you can't buy the real deal in the States. I've always been curious. I don't have any tales of absinthe-fueled, debauched rampages through the streets of Paris and Barcelona (and no sliced off ears!) but, because there are underage members, I think I will probably PM you. And, old Crowley rears his head once again; because of him as well as Picasso, Hemingway, Van Gogh and others, I was influenced to try "the green fairy". This quote will give you a vague idea of what it was like for me - YMMV: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. -- Oscar Wilde Oh, dear me. Did you happen to see a somewhat tall chap dressed all in white. He left this lighter on the countertop. The initials are J.C. Would that J.C. be the J.C. that I am thinking of? <gulp> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted December 14, 2007 Author Share Posted December 14, 2007 The Legend of Absinthe Apollo, who mourned at Hyacinthe's demise, Refused to concede this victory to Death. Much better that the soul, adept in transformation, Had to find a holy alchemy for Beauty. Thus with his celestial hand he drained and crushed The subtlest harvest of the garden goddess, The broken bodies of the herbs yielding a golden essence From which we measure out our first drop -- of Absinthe! In lowly hovels and in glittering courts, Alone, in pairs, drink up this potion of desire! For it is sorcery -- as one might say -- When the pale opal wine ends all misery, Opens Beauty's most intimate sanctuary -- - Bewitches my heart, and exalts my soul in ecstasy! - A.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChild Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I don't have any tales of absinthe-fueled, debauched rampages through the streets of Paris and Barcelona (and no sliced off ears!) Darnnit! (well, except for the ear part.) but, because there are underage members, I think I will probably PM you. And, old Crowley rears his head once again; because of him as well as Picasso, Hemingway, Van Gogh and others, I was influenced to try "the green fairy". This quote will give you a vague idea of what it was like for me - YMMV: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. -- Oscar Wilde Whoa. So, kind of like acid... I look forward to discussing this off line. Would that J.C. be the J.C. that I am thinking of? <gulp> Thine is the Lighter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GioBrasil Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Whoa. So, kind of like acid... I look forward to discussing this off line. Acid is a little exaggerated, but it's very close marijuana efects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 QUOTE (MadScreamingGallery @ Dec 13 2007, 06:38 PM) * I don't have any tales of absinthe-fueled, debauched rampages through the streets of Paris and Barcelona (and no sliced off ears!) Darnnit! wink.gif (well, except for the ear part.) Yes, how times have changed. Back in the day, I needed only adrenalin to fuel my debauched...erm...activities. QUOTE (MadScreamingGallery @ Dec 13 2007, 06:38 PM) * but, because there are underage members, I think I will probably PM you. And, old Crowley rears his head once again; because of him as well as Picasso, Hemingway, Van Gogh and others, I was influenced to try "the green fairy". This quote will give you a vague idea of what it was like for me - YMMV: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. -- Oscar Wilde Whoa. So, kind of like acid... I look forward to discussing this off line. I've never dropped acid so I wouldn't know. I'll PM you. Acid is a little exaggerated, but it's very close marijuana efects Agreed. Close to the effects one would feel from good pot or hash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 ROSE of this WORLD In lecherous longing and knavery, The secret spell of my Rose's slavery. By her unbound Beauty, I was taken. In the raging and raving Abyss of the physical craving Hallucinations of 'love;' I was mistaken. Imbibe what thou wilt, - Alick C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChild Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Thanks guys. Adrenalin makes a fine fuel for one's enthusiams, and is just as addictive as some other substances! Clearly our Mr. Crowley was quite enamored of the Green Fairy, wasn't he? But, what I really want to know is... anyone got a recipe for some really excellent home made corned beef hash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 For Sunchild, Secrets from old Nanny Crowley's mess hall ... Corned Beef Hash Yield: Makes 4 servings Ingredients: 2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine 1 large onion, chopped 1/2 pound corned beef, finely chopped 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish 1/4 cup whipping cream 4 poached or fried eggs 4 grams حشيش (only if desired). Preparation: 1. Boil potatoes in 10-inch skillet over high heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer 6 minutes and drain to colander. 2. Cook onions in butter over medium-high heat 5 minutes in skillet. Stir in corned beef, horseradish and potatoes; mix well. Press down mixture with spatula to flatten into compact layer. 3. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and حشيش . 3. Reduce heat to low. Drizzle cream evenly over mixture. Cook 10 to 15 minutes. Turn mixture with spatula; pat down and continue cooking 10 to 15 minutes or until bottom is well browned. Served with 1 poached or fried egg. 4. Imbibe. 5. Envisage. 6. Stargaze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChild Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 For Sunchild, Secrets from old Nanny Crowley's mess hall ... Thanks Aleister. This sounds like extremely fine hash, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunChild Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 I get these "vocab vitamin" e-mails (ok, so I'm a geek) and thought today's was apropos of this thread: chartreuse (noun) [shawr-TROOZ, shawr-TROOS] 1. a bright yellowish green color: "She fell in love with a little scraggly kitten with chartreuse eyes." adjective form: chartreuse Origin: Approximately 1884; from French, after a liqueur produced at the monastery of the Carthusian order. The original recipe now being marketed as Les Peres Chartreux. The color is so called from resemblance to the pale apple-green hue of the liqueur. In action: "'To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.' -- Michel de Montaigne Death is too important to be left to the end of life. Better to face death now while you can still enjoy what it has to offer. Fortunately, there are several ways to do this, and there's a special outfit for each encounter. In jeans, chartreuse windbreaker and parachute, you can dangle your legs out the doorway of an old prop plane and push yourself into oblivion. In fatigues and helmet, you can endure the daily routine of terror and courage until death is an easy friend. Sitting silently in a loose-fitting black meditation robe, you can follow your inner corpse to its ultimate ego-annihilating epiphany." Brother Void. "Learning to die," Salon.com (October 25, 2002). http://www.vocabvitamins.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cali Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 The Absinthe Drinker - Arthur Symons (1892) Gently I wave the visible world away. Far off, I hear a roar, afar yet near, Far off and strange, a voice is in my ear, And is the voice my own? the words I say Fall strangely, like a dream, across the day; And the dim sunshine is a dream. How clear, New as the world to lovers' eyes, appear The men and women passing on their way! The world is very fair. The hours are all Linked in a dance of mere forgetfulness. I am at peace with God and man. O glide Sands of the hour-glass that I count not, fall Serenely: scarce I feel your soft caress, Rocked on this dreamy and indifferent tide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 Breaks "Break, break, break At the foot of thy stones, O Sea! And I would that I could utter The thoughts that arise in me!" - A.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireOpal Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 I thought absinthe was legal again, even in the U.S. - no? I'd love to try it, just out of curiosity, though my drinking days are over for the most part. Around your 30's, if you've been overindulgent, your body starts to say, "Party's over, a**hole!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reswati Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 The stuff is legal in the Netherlands, although it is hard to find a good one. The first picture was taken in Berlin where they have 2 Absinthe bars, the second was taken in my former kitchen after already half a bottle of it, hence the slightly lunatic expression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Melanie Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I want to try this stuff. I wonder were I can get it here in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 She is it, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon; With silk and steel she bound me, In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me, Stifling me into her swoon ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 One kiss, like snow, to slip, Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine ; One kiss, a white-sail ship To laugh and leap and dip Her brows divine ~ A.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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