Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 16 13:29:56 CDT 2013


OK, you can all laugh at me and feel your deserved superiority because
you have all probably seen a sloth crawl across a 6-8 feet long horizontal tree
branch but I did not until today. 

It is amazing, he says so articulately. if truth is movement captured in film's 24 frames per
Second, then the upside-down sloth must be moving at 2-4 frames per sec,
Long arms in the slowest long arc motion you might ever see in real life. 

I was transfixed and, of course, not ever really knowing by experience
How slowly a sloth moved, I did not think through the evolutionary reason. 

To keep themselves " invisible" to predators! 

Slothrop. Not just another funny name. 

The webbed meanings of so many of TRP's key metaphors, such as this one, keep astonishing. 

Sent from my iPad


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