Posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2005, at 23:11:01
But a different kind of boulder.
That ones not inside me
It's hanging round my neck.
Has anyone heard of 'Sysiphus' (probably spelt that wrong)?
He was defiant to the gods and to they sentanced him
To push a large boulder up to the top of mount olympus (in the afterworld).
Once he had succeeded in pushing it all the way up
The gods (or maybe it was Zeus) pushed it back down
And he had to go and fetch it
And push it up again
For all eternity.
He is a tragic hero.
He did not let it get him down.
He is defiant still
They could not break him.Camus wrote a book "The Myth of Sysiphus" (though the link won't come through if I have spelt it incorrectly).
It begins with (lets see what my dodgey memory can come up with this time):
There is but one serious philosophical question: that of suicide. Are we morally obliged to kill ourself?
He considers that we live in a world where god has abandoned us. We are cursed to decide our own path. We are cursed to be free. We never asked for any of that.
And so: are we obliged to kill ourselves in protest?
He ends up concluding that we are not.
We would be better to live in a spirit of defiance.One of my old t's mentioned it to me.
She thought Camus might give me reasons that she could not.
She was right.But the temptation is to let the rock roll down
And crush us on its way past...
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