Liquid Assets: Crazy for absinthe

Oscar Wilde penned glorious stories of sipping absinthe in fashionable Victorian parlors. Wilde wrote: “After the first glass of absinthe 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… .”
With the promise of fantastical side effects, the libation enchanted writers and inspired artists during the height of Paris’s Belle-Epoque. Manet and Picasso imbibed the spirit daily. It’s rumored Vi