Horace and Jacob's Cabin

[Jon]

Horace was chopping down wood to build a cabin (think he said for his family?) but the other's live in a nice village with houses.... why was he building a cabin if he already had a home......

Was he building it for Jacob? Why? Was Horace the Leader before Ben?

I don't think Horace was building it for anyone except for himself and his family. But what happened, is that the cabin never got completed. It lingered in Horace's mind as a half-formed, ethereal dream...existing in a sort of limbo. This state was noticed by the island and the ghostly essence of Jacob 'inhabited' it.

[littleb]

I found this on Lostpedia.... interesting reference....

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955.

In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man's futile search for meaning, unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternity. Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? Camus answers: "No. It requires revolt." He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The essay concludes, "The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."