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Originally Posted by SNR
Isn't there some story about Winston Churchill swigging absinthe the night before a battle he knew would come, where many Brits would die, but he had to not let them know in order to not tip off the Nazis that they were getting the intelligence somewhere?
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Not that I know of.
It has been contributed to
Charles Baudelaire,
Paul Verlaine,
Arthur Rimbaud,
Vincent van Gogh,
Oscar Wilde, and
Aleister Crowley were all notorious
bad men of that day who were (or were thought to be) devotees of the Green Fairy.