Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[Markekohut]

WUNDERBAR. Bliss = grace on the face?

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 16, 2013, at 6:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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