Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[David Morris]

Ignorance is Bliss

On Saturday, March 16, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> WUNDERBAR. Bliss = grace on the face?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 6:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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