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If the story ends well for Sisyphus, maybe it can end well for Ky. (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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I could just make out a tiny hill, with the ant-size figure of Sisyphus struggling to move his boulder to the top. (source)
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Deo had been greatly taken with the myth of Sisyphus when he'd encountered it at Columbia. (source)
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Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his potsherd. (source)
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Miss Ophelia, in a few days, thoroughly reformed every department of the house to a systematic pattern; but her labors in all departments that depended on the cooperation of servants were like those of Sisyphus or the Danaides. (source)
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There, too, the hard-task'd Sisyphus I saw, Thrusting before him, strenuous, a vast rock. (source)
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What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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"It is a Sisyphean task," she admitted (though with an enthusiasm that prompted one to wonder if she had a complete command of the term's etymology).† (source)Sisyphean = difficult, futile, and never-ending
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'Tis not for thee to be a laughing-stock to the race of Sisyphus by reason of this wedding of Jason, sprung, as thou art, from noble sire, and of the Sun-god's race. (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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It was a Sisyphean task.† (source)Sisyphean = difficult, futile, and never-ending
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In the old days, a guy named Sisyphus tricked Death and tied him up. (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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Could it be, I wondered, that these children died every evening only to be resurrected by the loop, like some Sisyphean suicide cult, condemned to be blown up and stitched back together for eternity?† (source)Sisyphean = difficult, futile, and never-ending
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'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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The work had a Sisyphean quality.† (source)Sisyphean = difficult, futile, and never-ending
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But in this land of Sisyphus will I institute in addition to this a solemn festival and sacrifices hereafter to expiate this unhallowed murder. (source)Sisyphus = Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
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"I see," I say, realizing why our hikes on the little hill reminded Ky of Sisyphus. (source)
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"Don't forget Sisyphus the Hamster," Augustus added. (source)Sisyphus = proper name - without obvious relation to myth
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Winds are capricious all through there—that's why it's called the Sisyphus Triangle. (source)Sisyphus = a geographic region
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Right, and also of course what fate awaited Sisyphus the Hamster. (source)Sisyphus = proper name - without obvious relation to myth
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Anna's mom, the Dutch Tulip Man, Sisyphus the Hamster, I mean, just—what happens to everyone. (source)Sisyphus = proper name - without obvious relation to myth
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Christine and Anna played with Sisyphus in a few scenes. (source)
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I can't believe he imagined a future for Sisyphus the Hamster but not for Anna's mom. (source)
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And lastly—I realize that this is the kind of deep and thoughtful question you always hoped your readers would ask—what becomes of Sisyphus the Hamster? (source)
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I watched TV in bed and checked my email and then after a while started crafting an email to Peter Van Houten about how I couldn't come to Amsterdam but I swore upon the life of my mother that I would never share any information about the characters with anyone, that I didn't even want to share it, because I was a terribly selfish person, and could he please just tell me if the Dutch Tulip Man is for real and if Anna's mom marries him and also about Sisyphus the Hamster. (source)
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