“Absinthe, on a winter evening, lights up in green the sooty soul.” ~Charles Cros
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WanderLit Weekend Read: To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
Hemingway had extensive coctail experience and used it in his writing. What a charachter drinks and how he fixes it gives the reader insight into the character. If Hemingway had contempt for a type of drink, he put it in the hands of a charachter he wanted to reader to feel contempt for. If he enjoyed a particular drink on Pilar, he put it to the lips of a boating protagonist. If he thought a cocktail sophisticated or complicated, he served it to a character when he was worthy of it. Before To Have and Have Another, I never really considered character development revealed through drink.