Two fine similes to describe inertness, of which I lean to the first as being more euphonic and original.

‘… inert as an aardvark or a giant ant-eater…’

Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts: On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (London: Penguin Books, 1977), p. 201

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