Talk:Upas

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 * Don't forget emerson! http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/mithridates.htm *The name of the upas tree became legendary from the mendacious account (professedly by one Foersch, who was a surgeon at Semarang in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, --><!-- retells Foersch's story in poetic terms, writing about the upas tree, avoided by the birds and the beasts alike - but still used by human potentates as the source of poison to be used as weapon. .**Alexander Pushkin, 1828 poem Anchar ('Upas Tree') It is also used as an allegory of John Addington Symonds anxiety about his homosexuality in a peccant pamphlet of about 1870, and included under another title in his openly published poems of 1880.


 * If conspicuousness and notoriety could mean greatness, we have our "great men" in California. But are they the Fire Pillars in our dark pilgrimage? Verily, no. They are upas trees, blighting life spreading desolation, ruin, death upon all they overshadow.
 * The Squatter and the Don ch. 32, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

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 * The agent's instructions were simple but emphatic: 'Collect the rent in advance, or, failing, eject the occupants."' Upon such a stock grew this upas-tree. Small wonder the fruit is bitter. **How the Other Half Lives Introduction, Jacob Riis