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Updated: May 7, 2025
If eloquence is reason fused with emotion, writing, or speaking, full of dead metaphors is unreason fused with sham emotion. I add in illustration a further list of dead metaphors lately noticed: 'Branches of the same deadly Upas Tree. Turning a deaf ear to. The flower of our manhood. Taking off the gloves. Written in letters of fire. Stemming the tide. Big with possibilities. The end is in sight.
The Peradeniya curator pointed out that Java was a volcanic island, and one valley where the upas flourishes is certainly fatal to all animal life owing to the emanations of carbonic acid gas escaping from fissures in the soil. It was impossible to look at this handsome tree without some respect for its powers of evil, though I doubt if it be more poisonous than the West Indian manchineel.
Your interests, your pleasures, your friends, your pursuits, all have been swept on one side, if they seemed in the smallest degree likely to interfere with my work, my desires, my career. You have lived for me absolutely. I have lived for myself. True, we have loved each other tenderly; we have been immensely happy. But, all the while, the shadow of the Upas tree was there.
Our life is a false nature; it is not in the harmony of things; it is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
But I believe that this feeling will be diminished, if not entirely removed, when he has made himself familiar with the following scheme. Of course if the Upas tree could be uprooted and banished from our midst, if with a wave of his magic wand some sorcerer could make it disappear, so much the better. But this is impossible.
"Blasting the life of all who pass beneath its deadly foliage U,P,A,S Upas." He paused before the great mirror, gazing at his own reflection. He put his face quite close to the glass, staring into his burning eyes. Then he struck at the reflection with his clenched fist. "Upas tree!" he snarled. "Take that, and be damned!" He had hurt his knuckles.
The victim of a horrible and disfiguring disease which so completely changed his countenance that his own mother would scarcely have recognized him, and the tenant of a charity hospital in the town of , I found that man who has proved the Upas of your life and of mine.
From month to month I shall send you what I do, and you will not refuse me your friendly criticism, and, perhaps, some slight meed of approbation, because you are dwelling beneath the shade of a throne. Oh, Caroline, let it not be a upas tree!" The Miss Petries of the world have this advantage, an advantage which rarely if ever falls to the lot of a man, that they are never convinced of error.
Even after dinner they smoked their cigars upon the low branches that swept down and touched the lawn, until at length she insisted on their coming in. Cedars, she had somewhere heard, were not safe after sundown; it was not wholesome to be too near them; to sleep beneath them was even dangerous, though what the precise danger was she had forgotten. The upas was the tree she really meant.
For a short time the kingdom breathed freely in fancied security; but soon the epidemic of sudden as well as lingering deaths from poison broke out again on all sides. The fatal tree of the knowledge of evil, seemingly cut down with Exili and St. Croix, had sprouted afresh, like a upas that could not be destroyed. The poisoners became more numerous than ever. Following the track of St.
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