Sisyphus- The model for a Bolelli-ian Hero?

# 13 Jun, 2013 02:59
TucoRamirez	If I'm lucky Daniele will read this and reply with his thoughts, I'm hoping I'm not out of left field here.. I found Albert Camus late in my life, I did not read the Stranger until I was out of college. If I wasnt in Daniele's age group and found his (and Alan Watts) writings later in life, I'm hopeful I would have missed out on the rat race–not to be.. I whine alot, something that is not in the Bolelli Credo but I'm mindful of it and aim to destroy it. I also realize life is absurd, an essential Camus-ism and tis best to find joy because seriously our existence here from the maternity ward to the crematorium is brief. The Myth of Sisyphus is a great Camus essay dealing with the greek tragedy of Sisyphus, a Greek king, a trickster who dared the gods and fooled them only to be punished by Zeus to the arcane task of rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it fall back down before he reaches the top.. Here we have the Camus essay on this tale.. Quotes by Albert Camus: The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn.* And finally: I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. There it is for me: The Daniele Bolelli middle finger of the gods. Sisyphus saying, well if I'm going to be in hell (the modern rat race with all its trappings), then I might as well be happy. (Or as Conan would say to Crom, “And if you don't listen, then to hell with you–cue middle finger.”&ndash I can think and Daniele obviously can prove me wrong of no mythical figure more exemplary of a Bolelli model character. Although Saku 39 is damn close! quote

# 13 Jun, 2013 02:59

*If I'm lucky Daniele will read this and reply with his thoughts, I'm hoping I'm not out of left field here..

I found Albert Camus late in my life, I did not read the Stranger until I was out of college. If I wasnt in Daniele's age group and found his (and Alan Watts) writings later in life, I'm hopeful I would have missed out on the rat race–not to be.. I whine alot, something that is not in the Bolelli Credo but I'm mindful of it and aim to destroy it.

I also realize life is absurd, an essential Camus-ism and tis best to find joy because seriously our existence here from the maternity ward to the crematorium is brief. The Myth of Sisyphus is a great Camus essay dealing with the greek tragedy of Sisyphus, a Greek king, a trickster who dared the gods and fooled them only to be punished by Zeus to the arcane task of rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it fall back down before he reaches the top.. Here we have the Camus essay on this tale..

Quotes by Albert Camus:

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.

There is no fate that can not be surmounted by scorn.

And finally:

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

There it is for me: The Daniele Bolelli middle finger of the gods. Sisyphus saying, well if I'm going to be in hell (the modern rat race with all its trappings), then I might as well be happy. (Or as Conan would say to Crom, “And if you don't listen, then to hell with you–cue middle finger.”&ndash smile

I can think and Daniele obviously can prove me wrong of no mythical figure more exemplary of a Bolelli model character.

Although Saku 39 is damn close!