Meeting in a deserted resort, they drink absinthe, smoke, and joke around, but pretend to have an adversarial relationship while at school.

"You have diagnosed my case, and you think it's very wrong of me to drink absinthe."

Later, he took to drinking absinthe and doing profane paintings.

Brett always drank absinthe, when he had the money.

They knew that in the 20's people drank absinthe.

I guess they'll put her out of here, too--she's getting to have crazy fits, from drinking absinthe.

I can imagine them in a Paris cafe, where they used to drink absinthe.

When the troops returned home, they started to drink absinthe with water.

Jesus, the last time I saw anything like this I'd been drinking absinthe for a fortnight.

Characters in her book Lost Souls also drink absinthe.