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SLOTH

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Polly Becker

1. Physical or mental inactivity;
disinclination to action, exertion, or labour;
sluggishness, idleness, indolence, laziness.

—Oxford English Dictionary

Blissful Sloth
An Essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, A&S '04 (MA)

Also
Beating Work-Time Blues
Ennui & Charles Carroll Jr.
Why So Many Don't Vote
When Dying Kids Live Well
A Sympathetic Ear
A Nation of Lazy Listeners
Hazards of a Broken Heart

 
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