आजचा सिसिफस ....Sisyphus and His Mobile

Robert Graves, ‘The Greek myths’, 1955:

“....Sisyphus was given an exemplary punishment. The Judges of the Dead showed him a tall block of stone—identical in size with that into which Zeus had turned himself when fleeing from Asopus—and ordered him to roll it until brow of a hill and topple it down the farther slope. He has never succeeded in doing so. As soon as he has almost reached the summit, he is forced back by the weight of the shameless stone, which bounce the very bottom once more; where he wearily retrieves it and rolling begins all over again, though sweat bathes his limbs, and a cloud of rises above his head.”

courtesy: the artist and The Spectator, UK