metaphorists

Updated: May 15, 2025

One may hope, in spite of the metaphorists, to avoid the breath of the deadly upas tree; one may, by great good fortune, succeed in blacking the eye of the basilisk; one might even dodge the attentions of Cerberus and Argus, but no man, alive or dead, can escape the gaze of the Rubberer. New York is the Caoutchouc City.

O. Henry - The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million