sisyphus icy "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." (translated) Albert Camus 050801 ... icy oh, to find comfort in the futility of it all... 061220 ... jane (been feeling like this lately) 090730 ... DannyH SISYPHUS: HI Honey I'm Home MRS SISYPHUS: How was your day dear? SISYPHUS: Oh, you know, same old same old. MRS SISYPHUS: Did you speak to...you know, like we talked about. SISYPHUS: Well, you know... MRS SISYPHUS: You didn't talk to him did you. SISYPHUS: He's very busy. I don't like to bother him, especially when, well you know he was pretty unequivocal about the deal. MRS SISYPHUS: You want to push a rock up a hill your whole life? SISYPHUS: Well, you know, I kind of like working outdoors. Sure it's kind of pointless but the thing is, after I've pushed that heavy uncomfortable piece of granite all that way, I do get a tangible sense of achievement. MRS SISYPHUS: It just rolls back down to the bottom again. EVERY TIME. SISYPHUS: Yeah, but..it's hard to describe but after I've watched it go down and I know that all I can do is walk back down to the bottom and start pushing again. I get this...feeling. MRS SISYPHUS: Feeling? What feeling? SISYPHUS: I don't know how to describe it. It's not happiness, exactly, more like, oh I don't know, resignation sounds a bit too negative. MRS SISYPHUS: So I have to take the pitying looks of the women at the sewing circle on the basis of a "feeling". You get a tingle of some indistinct philosophical profundity and we have to spend our whole lives with nothing more to look forward to than, than...more of this. SISYPHUS: Look it's not like you didn't know who I was before we got married. MRS SISYPHUS: I know, I know, but I thought there might at least be some kind of training program. I didn't realise it would be quite so bloody...relentless SISYPHUS: Hey, it's not like I see you out there pushing. MRS SISYPHUS: I know, I know, we're all very grateful for what you do. We know you've made sacrifices. SISYPHUS: I mean, the relentless is kind of the point. MRS SISYPHUS: Okay, whatever. Keep pushing the rock. SISYPHUS: You know, maybe in a few more millenia, they might... MRS SISYPHUS: Yeah, yeah they might. It's okay. I just can't help wishing there was more to life than this. SISYPHUS: Well you know, philosophically speaking... MRS SISYPHUS: Can we cut the philosophy, just for one night, honey Okay? SISYPHUS: Sure sure. I'm sorry I brought it up. What's for dinner? MRS SISYPHUS: Meatloaf. SISYPHUS: What, again? 090731 ... CheapVodka I love that. That is all. 131126 what's it to you? who go blather from