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the guy who taught eternity that effort and progress are not the same thing.
means a figure condemned to push a boulder uphill forever, now shorthand for any task that resets itself just as you finish it.
from greek myth: a cunning king who cheated death twice, so the gods sentenced him to an eternity of pointless labor as punishment for outsmarting fate itself.
trickster kinghe chained death itself once, briefly
camus rewritecamus called him happy, not doomed
boulder detailstone always rolls back just before the top
corinth founderhe ruled corinth before the gods intervened