Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[David Morris]

Some call sloth's look as "bliss."

On Saturday, March 16, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> I've seen a TV show of sloth orphans. They are very cuddly, cute, slow,
> and ALWAYS with an invisible shit-eating grin.
>
>
> http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/too-cute/videos/too-cute-baby-sloths.htm
>
> On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut 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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