system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Could you help me understand this excerpt from "The Myth of Sisyphus?"

> In its way, suicide settles the absurd. It engulfs the absurd in the same death. But I know that in order to keep alive, the absurd cannot be settled. It escapes suicide to the extent that it is simultaneously awareness and rejection of death. It is, at the extreme limit of the condemned man's last thought, that shoelace that despite everything he sees a few yards away, on the very brink of his dizzying fall.

I don't quite understand what's meant by that last sentence. It seems that the shoelace represents a glimmer of hope for the condemned man, but I don't see why.
gpt
The condemned man here is the mortal human - in that you are condemned to die at some point in the future the moment you are born.

With that in mind, suicide is confronted and considered by the condemned man, but said man decides instead to continue living until his death with the knowledge that suicide is an option.

So what you have with the shoelace isn't representative of hope, but rather of the recognized but disregarded alternative to the "dizzying fall" that is a life lived until its natural end. There's a sort of human pride associated with continuing on and not taking the shortcut - staring death in the face, as it were.