"...if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders-what would you tell him to do?"
"I . . . don't know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
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14 comments:
If I ever did see him holding the world on his shoulders like that I'd tell him to stop standing upside-down, of course.
If he's holding the world, how comes it that we cannot see his hands, where they contact the Earth? Eh?
if atlas is holding the earth, why can't we see him? and also, if we did see him i'd tell him to put the earth down on whatever he was standing on to take a break.
if i ever saw atlas, i would be scared, becuase i wasnt on the earth, i was just in a space with a big man holding a globe
By the way, it's halftime at Riverbend, and their losing to JM, 0-13.
hey colin, this post was kinda random, what is it supposed to mean?
if i saw atlas i'd kick him in the shins
Actually Isaac, many people care. In fact, I'd say msot people that go to Riverbend care, and I'd venture to say that many people who go to James Monroe, and for that matter even Chancellor, care.
Looks like Isaac's mad 'cause the Bend lost.
you cannot see the deeper meaning?
Ok, assuming that Atlas really is holding the world on his shoulders like the Greeks thought he was and gravity apparently doesn't exist, I still don't get the meaning. Why would anyone tell him to drop the world if we're on it, wouldn't that destroy the world and kill whoever told him to drop it?
Actually, from reading the sparknotes summary of this book, it seems more like some evil capitalist propaganda. (not that I don't believe in capitalism, which I do) If he's really holding up the world because he wants to help all the people on it, one could argue that he shouldn't worry about helping them because he's bigger than they are and he doesn't have to. (which wouldn't be very nice) However, he's really holding it up because the gods are punishing him. They're even more powerful than he is, so this capitalist analogy doesn't really work, Atlas isn't holding the world up for the people, he's doing it because Zeus is making him do it.
Anyway, its evil capitalist propaganda! I could stay and argue with you about how it's wrong, but I have a lot of work that I should be doing right now.
evil capitalism?
i think not
Yay Ayn Rand.
That's what I'd tell him too. Poor guy.
Poor guy? No.
Are we not the poor ones, the pathetic ones? We, who can see that we are weighing him down, and we know that we are to suffer for it, yet we don't take some of the pressure off of him? We may not have the strength of Atlas, but if we all did our best, though only few would be Atlas-like, we could alleviate the pressure.
Instead we are content with sitting back, watching Atlas hold up this world.
well...
dtw
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