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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Sisyphus who? his useless-futile job forever

   Sisyphus was the main character in a story written by Albert Camus.  The story happened during the times in ancient Greece concerning the lives of the Greeks their gods and godesses, heroes and heroins and their religious and ritual practices, Sisyphus defied his god and knowing he was going to die he captured death and put it in chains.  But not for long god liberated death and so it was back and free.  When Sisyphus time to die came he ran and escape to the underworld.  But not for long he was captured and god gave him his punishment.  He was sentenced to push a huge boulder  up a mountain forever, but when he reached the top he found the boulder just rolled back down and he had to push it back to eternity.  What a useless and futile job!       

1 comment:

  1. That's what life is all about, a repetition of a senseless routine.

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