Sisyphus

Name vase of the Underworld Painter (Munich)

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Franz von Stuck1863-1928

Camus’ Absurd Hero

Sisyphus and Teaching

Sisyphus the Rap VersionFunky dude name of Sisyphus be walkin' up a hill And the rock he be rollin' weigh so much he wanna kill And the gods all be laughin' when he get up to the top 'Cause the rock won't be stayin' They all know it gonna drop But Sisyphus be cool Well, you know he aint no fool 'Cause the rock be his thing And the mountain be his too And the gods can't beat him, no matter what they do So though his burden's heavy And his body tired and torn You know there aint no funky fate Can't be overcome by scorn!

Stills Stephen Lyrics - Myth Of Sisyphus (Stephen Stills, Kenny Passarelli Lyrics (1975)

Are you leavin'Bein' aloneAlways made you so sadI got memories of the cityFollowin' me everywhere I go

Are you mad with heartacheGot a country homeAnd you a ParisienneGonna take all your sorrowsRight along with you when I'm gone

And I got to go awayOnly need a couple of daysI got one more chance to sing itAnd I ain't gon' waste my time'Cause everything including youIs on the line

Are you troubledFeelin' badAnd no one seems to careGot the myth of SisyphusFallin' on you like a rolling stone

Alt Linux Sisyphus

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Sisyphus GamingThe constant cycle of hardware upgrades and more complex games can leave a gamer feeling like the legendary Sisyphus.

Simon Abramovitch in Escapist Magazine

The fact is, technology will always be moving forward, keeping the cycle running fluidly, trapping high-road gamers into a never-ending struggle for more, ringing the familiar bells of the perennially dissatisfied middle-class American. Buy, consume, then buy some more.The case is like that of the mythical Sisyphus, eternally pushing a stone up a mountain slope, whence the stone falls back under its own weight, and the climb begins anew. That high road can perhaps be likened to this slope, with the endless cycle of renewed and heightened expectations keeping any end inevitably unreachable. Perhaps, as with our look back at early games, there is indeed wisdom in classics.

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Joseph Keppler, Sr. — Tantalus. From the front cover of the October 8th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine. Based on the Greek Myth, it shows former Speaker of the House, and Republican nominee for President, James G. Blaine, tantalized by the oh, so close, but never reachable to him, goal of the Presidency, along with the spoils, patronage, and other riches, that the thoroughly corrupt Blaine lusted after.

Yet Do I Marvelby Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

Yet Do I Marvelby Countee Cullen

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,And did He stoop to quibble could tell whyThe little buried mole continues blind,Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die,Make plain the reason tortured TantalusIs baited by the fickle fruit, declareIf merely brute caprice dooms SisyphusTo struggle up a never-ending stair.Inscrutable His ways are, and immuneTo catechism by a mind too strewnWith petty cares to slightly understandWhat awful brain compels His awful hand.Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:To make a poet black, and bid him sing.