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Friday, December 19, 2008
Ss: Sisyphean
Ss: Sisyphean: Endless and difficult.
Reputedly the cleverest man on earth, Sisyphus tricked the gods into bring him back to life after he died. For this they punished him back to the underworld, where he must eternally roll a huge rock u p a long steep hill, only to watch it roll back to where it started.
55 Word Story:
Bloging? Am I involved with a deluded Sisyphean task? For there are thousands of blogs out there, least I forget! Why the endless task of 55 words, only to start again, renewal of, renewing itself, rewound to a tight precision... like a tight piece of leather, flogging out words in my mind...but I am like Sisyphus who endlessly rolled a rock up a hill only to start again....
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