I live down the street from a bar that I love with dim lights. It’s hidden between a smoke shop and a comedy club. I love it because I can walk there and they serve a drink made with cucumber foam. I take my friends there. I took a date there. On said date there was a group of very drunk kids, and the guy out of the group said very loudly, “Gin is great! It tastes like flowers and I love it.” 🌸
I’ve watched 4 seasons of Peaky Blinders and I’m starting to think in British slang. Tommy Shelby (main character) creates a Gin that is supposedly distilled for the eradication of seemingly incurable sadness. Its a tiny detail, the label is shown maybe once or twice, but I thought it a beautiful and subtle ploy to invite empathy for a dark and stormy complicated hero. I empathize with his character, played so brilliantly by Cillian Murphy.
From My Life in Art by Stanislavsky, a Russian theater character actor born in 1863: “When you play an old man, look to see where he is young. When you play a young man, look to see where he is old. When you act an evil man, look to see where he is good.”