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Laziness See also Carelessness. Lechery (See LUST.) Bailey Junior nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit] goldbricking army private. [Comics: Horn, 105–106] too slothful in life, he repents after death. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy] demon of sloth. [Zoroastrian Myth.: Leach, 175] deliberately jobless and shirks household duties. [Comics: Horn, 82] hotel resident with no occupation. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood] terminally indolent, save when hunger dictates. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] for whom “work” is a four-letter word. [TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” in Terrace, II, 64–66]
whoever drank thereof, grew immediately “faint and weary.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] popular song by Hoagy Carmichael (1933). [Am. Music: Kinkle, II, 268] hapless sharecropper too lazy to keep his large family from starving. [Am. Lit.: Caldwell Tobacco Road] asleep under haystack while livestock roam. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 11] indolent landowner, always in robe and slippers. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov] humor effecting temperament of sluggishness. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] arboreal mammal, always associated with sluggishness. [Zoology: Misc.] an “illiterate loiterer”; slow-moving servant. [Br. Lit.: Two Gentlemen of Verona]
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True, they are lives of
noisy desperation, hindered by psychoses, prey to boredom and acedia,
and permeated from top to bottom with sex--but what could be more
ordinary than that? Reno contends that
the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the
monks called "the noonday devil" of acedia. Readers who struggle with sloth seem to get at the original meaning
of the Greek word, acedia, which meant "not caring. |
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