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By Jacob Sheen
March 4, 2008
1:08 PM

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C is for Camus and cookies

Jane McGonigal, whom MIT’s Technology Review named one of the top 35 innovators changing the world, is currently traveling around the world using cookies to spell out Albert Camus’ essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

Her plan is to spell out each word of the essay in a different city, using locally-sourced cookies. She will also roll a cookie up an incline of some kind in each city, the idea being to re-imagine Sisyphus as being content with his boulder-rolling life, happy to have something to do, even though the task is repetitive and meaningless.

This is a fascinating project, but would it be churlish to point out that the difference between cookies and boulders is a significant one?

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