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hill of Sisyphus’s task

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hill of Sisyphus’s task
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prodigious stone of SisyphusItem1 observation
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Sisyphus’s prodigious stone was rolled up the hill.

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“‘And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone {98} would come thundering down again on to the plain. Then he would begin trying to push it up hill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him. ”
SisyphusCharacter1 observation
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Sisyphus strained to roll his stone up the hill.

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“‘And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone {98} would come thundering down again on to the plain. Then he would begin trying to push it up hill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him. ”

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Sisyphus’s hill is the slope up which he endlessly forces his stone.

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“roll it up to the top of the hill”

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“the top of the hill”

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Book 11 · Passage 52

‘And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone {98} would come thundering down again on to the plain. Then he would begin trying to push it up hill again, and the sweat ran off him and the steam rose after him.