Meet the Sloths

[Dave Monroe]

Like the sloth, I also have nine neck vertebrae so as not to need to
move my body to feed, host moss and/or lichen in my pelt, and use the
Strategy of Slowness to survive ...

http://vimeo.com/11712103

June 6, 1993
The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee
By THOMAS PYNCHON

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html