| Sisyphus is indeed more famous for his inescapable punishment in the real world than for what he did in his life. Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of the mountain, only to have the rock roll back down to the bottom every time he reaches the top . It is an internal futile labor which is a hideous punishment there are a number of other stories to bring myth of Sisyphus into real life struggle. It is difficult to interpret whether life has any meaning and the more you concentrate your critical intelligence on it the more it seems to elude you, or to evaporate as any intelligible question |