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-- you might have noticed, i don't know.
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But, anyway
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--no, I don't drink very much pastis at all.
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But absinthe became one of the focuses of even some of
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the Impressionist paintings of cafe life.
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I think it's Degas who has The Absinthe Drinker
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where you see a woman sitting next to a man,
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and you don't know their relationship.
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They're anonymous in the cafe, you've kind of figured it out.
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And in this painting, which I should have brought in
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but I forgot, Degas brings you into it by not having any table leg,
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and so you wonder, "Where's the table leg?"