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Poetry
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Joe Crocker
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy”
(Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus)
Cartoon © Alexei Talimonov 2021
The gods condemned Sisyphus to roll a boulder up a hill for all eternity. Camus argued that this symbolises the human condition, true for all of us: the world is without meaning, and our lives are inescapably absurd. The point is to embrace the struggle with it, and to live without falling prey to despair, or hope, including in the supernatural.
I brace for balance when I work the stone.
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