Too bad Atlas can't get a good stretch and visit his daughters again. (Though, he had a bit of a break from Heracles when he went to fetch apples from Hera's garden. Perhaps he would have helped ease Atlas' burden for longer had Atlas not tried to trick him.) I wonder if by now, he's become dependent on the weight, like a prisoner behind bars for too long. If what holds him down has become the only thing that he remembers. Has Atlas forgotten to dream, to want to reach out?

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