Pandora’s Box And The Curse Of Hope.

W.H. Auden, Albert Camus and Zeus

Marc Barham
Counter Arts
Published in
7 min readMay 7, 2024

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Pandora holding the box, (1871) Dante Gabriel Rosetti (Wikimedia)

Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man’s torment.

Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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Marc Barham
Counter Arts

Column @ timetravelnexus.com on iconic books, TV shows/films: Time Travel Peregrinations. Reviewed all episodes of ‘Dark’ @ site. https://linktr.ee/marcbarham64