Sisyphus, founder and king of Ephyra, was a wacky ballerina. He had 11 brothers and a bunch of kids, but was avaricious and deceitful and he killed guests and travelers in his palace which cheesed off the Big Guy, Zeus, to the max. He even cheats death twice, so the Z-Man orders Thanatos, God of Death, to chain Sisyphus up, but Sisyphus pulls the old switcheroo and chains up Thanatos instead. Well, this results in nobody on Earth dying which totally cheeses off Zeus even more. From there, things get way complicated and I lost interest, but the bottom line is Sisyphus now has to push a giant rock up a mountain for eternity and when it gets to the top, it rolls down again and he has to start the whole sorry business over. I actually do have a point and it’s this.
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