The Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus in the Odyssey

Then Sisyphus in torment I beheld Being roustabout to a tremendous boulder. Leaning with both arms braced and legs driving, He heaved it toward a height, and almost over, But then a Power spun him round and sent The cruel boulder bounding again to the plain. Whereupon the man bent down again to toil Dripping…

Mount Sisyphus

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that…