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sisyphus
/ˈsɪsɪfəs/
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What does sisyphus mean?
proper noun
- Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.
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Every stone which for forty years he had rolled up proved to be only a Sisyphus stone.
Why is the Sisyphus a hard working paterfamilias and the sacred beetle an idle vagabond?
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Only when you reach your objective point do you come to a full realization that you have not been the Sisyphus of the Red Gods.
Compared with the Scarabaeus, which contents itself with idle wandering, or even with the meritorious Sisyphus, does it not seem that the Minotaur moves on an infinitely higher plane?
The fact is, that gardening is the old fable of perpetual labor; and I, for one, can never forgive Adam Sisyphus, or whoever it was, who let in the roots of discord.