Many years ago, I saw an Oscar-nominated animation of Sisyphus. Marvelous, spare brushwork. Mostly just a muscular figure straining to push a boulder up a steep mountain. As he finally lodges it into place at the top and wearily trudges downwards, we see that the entire mountain is made up of earlier boulders. So not only will his labor never end, the longer he’s at it the higher the mountain gets.
Many years ago, I saw an Oscar-nominated animation of Sisyphus. Marvelous, spare brushwork. Mostly just a muscular figure straining to push a boulder up a steep mountain. As he finally lodges it into place at the top and wearily trudges downwards, we see that the entire mountain is made up of earlier boulders. So not only will his labor never end, the longer he’s at it the higher the mountain gets.
(I wonder it that’s on YouTube…)
(Yep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5MdFdAe_JY)