" ... While a little absinthe can be quite pleasant, a lot, as with any other strong spirit, will make you drunk. Perhaps, if you are of an Oscar Wilde bent, too much absinthe will do to you what it did to him: 'After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were,' he said in one of his many disquisitions on absinthe. 'After the second you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world ...'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/dining/reviews/13wine.html?pagewanted=1&em