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   From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   Ed Cryer wrote:.   
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   > I recommend Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus; all about how absurd   
   > life is.   
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   > Other mythical sufferers of divine Greek punishment; Tantalus, Ixion,   
   > Prometheus.   
   > Pretty horrific, but Dante came up with some worse Christian ones.   
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   > Ed   
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   The Greeks had hundreds of similar example of "hubris". Anybody trying   
   to reach high gets knocked down, like Otus and Ephialtes who piled mount   
   Pelion on Ossa to try and get to Olympus.   
   I find all that strangely at odds with all the great successes that the   
   Greeks produced; Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, etc.; all great rational   
   and scientific minds, as great as Einstein, Bohr or Faraday in their day.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)