Wednesday, April 20

A literary depiction of the moebius-strip and Sisyphus myth

 LOOP
 © Ben White 2002

"You mean it goes around in a loop?" 
"Exactly right, a loop, yes."
"I looked around the room. It was very small and very bare."
"There's no way out."
"None at all. We're stuck doing the same thing over and over again."
"You mean it goes around in a loop?"


The moebius-strip, joining the ends of the strip to form a loop, is very known and has already been at two posts at this blog.I loved this micro-fiction because it is a literary depiction of a moebius-strip and it also reminds me Camus's Sisyphus myth: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" even tho he is condemned to repeat the same action for eternity.
Cheat: if you didn't get it compare the first and last sentence of the dialog.
I want to thank again Wilson Voight for introducing me another good text.