Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

[Lemuel Underwing]

Apparently sloths can die because they move so slow they sometimes grab
onto another one of their arms thinking that it's a Tree-Branch....


Don't let yr left arm know what yr right arms doing

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ignorance is suffering, discovery is bliss.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:24 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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