Wouldn’t you just move the ground floor people in the hotel up one floor and that floors people up one etc to infinity to clear space for the rock?
The ship might be repairable, but that’s not so true of the crew
Wouldn’t the boulder always roll back down before it got to either the ship or the hotel?
All of the tasks are pointless. The boulder rolls down, the hotel for sure can accommodate him, the ship will be reborn. Which is most pointless seems to be the paradox now. “Is he happy?” implies that pointless tasks please him.
Is he happy refers to the end of Camus’ book The Myth of Sisyphus where he concludes “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” The oft omitted penultimate line gives the meaning Camus was going for. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” So one does not have to make believe Sisyphus to be happy but one must consider him so.
