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Sisyphus has a tough eternity!
The most cunning knave Sisyphus, founder and king of Corinth, was notorious as the most cunning man on earth. His greatest triumph came at the end of his life when Hades, god of the Underworld, the place of the dead, came to claim him. Hades brought along a pair of handcuffs, a comparative novelty in those days. Sisyphus expressed such an interest in the handcuffs that Hades was persuaded to demonstrate their use - on himself! Hades was soon locked up in a closet. This caused a great calamity. The balance of life and death was seriously out of whack. Nobody could die. A soldier might be chopped to bits in battle but would show up at camp for dinner. Finally, to restore order, Hades was released and Sisyphus reported to the Underworld for his eternal assignment. But the wily Sisyphus had another trick up his sleeve. Don't bury me! He simply told his wife not to bury him. Then, he complained to Persephone, the
Queen of the Dead, that he had not been accorded proper burial honors. As an
unburied corpse, he had no way to cross the river Styx - the boundary between
the living and the dead - because his wife had not placed a coin under his
tongue to pay his passage with Charon, the ferryman of the dead. The Queen
granted Sisyphus time to journey back to the land of the living to arrange a
proper burial. He was condemned to an eternity at hard and frustrating labor: roll a great boulder to the top of a hill. Every time Sisyphus, by the greatest of exertion and toil, attained the summit, the rock rolled back down again. Poor Sisyphus!
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