Lethargy

As Derek Farr, bastion of the film noir, so eloquently said in his early film 'Lethargy':

The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #5 1990

By this time I had sunk into a kind of Lethargy, and, being conveyed below and put into a cot in the Master's Cabin, fell into a slumber, which lasted for very many hours.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

But as the Mind naturally sinks into a kind of Lethargy, and falls asleep, that is not agitated by some Favourite Pleasures and

Spectator, April 12, 1711 1711

Mind naturally sinks into a kind of Lethargy, and falls asleep, that is not agitated by some Favourite Pleasures and Pursuits, _Leonora_ has turned all the Passions of her Sex into a Love of Books and Retirement.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

The band, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, featuring a tiny singer with rosy cheeks who called herself “Cap Lori,” played rumbling Velvet Underground dirges.

Last Night « PubliCola 2010

One is called Fear and the other is called Lethargy.

Embracing the New: Avoiding a Routinized Life Dr. James Hollis 2010

Lethargy has been overwhelming these few days; it pulls the plug from my mental basin and allows the effort from my mugging sessions to go down the drain, literally.

babycartercl Diary Entry babycartercl 2008

Understanding, and rock'd my Reason into a Lethargy, otherwise I shou'd have foreseen his Falshood in the Person of the abandon'd

Exilius 2008

They were only two, but they were Lethargy and Madness.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

The inactivity of Do-Nothin 'Doug and his fellow Lions of Lethargy a decade ago had terrible consequences and recruited more jihadists than any of Bush's daisy cutters.

July 10, 2005 Laban 2005