Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[Ian Livingston]

Huh. Hadn't made that connection. Good 'un.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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