It's like Sisyphus rolling the ball up the hill, a thirst that can't be quenched.
The researchers' comparison of the struggle for privacy to the eternal plight of Sisyphus?
"Cosmopolis, " with its echoes of Beckett and Sisyphus, carries a rather banal message that absolute wealth corrupts absolutely.
Like Sisyphus, I get up every morning, grab a cup of coffee, and sit at my desk.
But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks.
Moreover, researchers had to demonstrate the perseverance of Sisyphus to get the pricing information, something it seems highly unlikely very many real-life consumers could pull off successfully.
So like Sisyphus and his stone or Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, the nation will again face the same political drama over spending and taxes less than four weeks from now.
But though it may be a mission as futile as Sisyphus', I feel bound to protest when I discover new lows in inexorable degradation of our sensibility, manners, idealism and common sense.
As hopeful as the industry may be, pushing LOST to increase oil supply is ultimately akin to Sisyphus rolling his rock up the hill, doomed to watch it fall to the bottom yet again.
In addition, it sets you up for a career in either clinical work abroad, which is rewarding but is similar to residency in the fact that you work like Sisyphus in broken systems, when its really the system that needs fixing.
In his Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus likens our absurd existence to the fate of the Greek mythological figure, whose task was to push a rock up a mountain, watch it roll down, only to begin again, fully aware of the futility of his condition.
Given political and economic tensions, however, one wonders if these efforts, however commendable, face the same task as Sisyphus, the tragic figure of ancient Greek myth rolling an immense boulder up a hill, watching it fall down and repeating the action for eternity as punishment for his transgressions.
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