← And he ordered an absinthe. 🔊
← "It's not exactly worship," he qualified, sipping his absinthe. 🔊
← He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy. 🔊
← "No absinthe there," he muttered. 🔊
← Absinthe, erst but a point in the "personality" he had striven so hard to build up, was solace and necessity now. 🔊