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en-m-wikipedia-org-8359		Sisyphus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2406	234	70	The repetitive inhalation–exhalation cycle is described esoterically in the myth as an up–down motion of Sisyphus and his boulder on a hill. In Kopfers interpretation, the solution turns the punishment by the gods into a test for Sisyphus to prove his worthiness for godlike deeds. Homer describes Sisyphus in both Book VI of the Iliad and Book XI of the Odyssey.[8][15] According to Frederick Karl: "The man who struggled to reach the heights only to be thrown down to the depths embodied all of Kafka's aspirations; and he remained himself, alone, solitary."[25] The philosopher Richard Taylor uses the myth of Sisyphus as a representation of a life made meaningless because it consists of bare repetition.[26] The Myth of Sisyphus, a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus which uses Sisyphus' punishment as a metaphor for the absurd "Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Sisyphus".	./cache/en-m-wikipedia-org-8359.html	./txt/en-m-wikipedia-org-8359.txt