"One always finds one's burden again." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Let's start with a little mythology. This week's episode of Fargo, "The Myth of Sisyphus," borrows the title of an Albert ...
With the increase of Sisyphus-related memes being shared on Twitter, it raises the question: Don’t you think the ancient Greeks would have loved memes? What is the story of Sisyphus? Sisyphus — or ...
I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus speaks of the divide that exists between what human beings want and what the world offers. “The mind’s deepest desire,” he writes, “is an insistence upon ...