Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me

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Ha! that's great. Makes me think that if only Pointsman would've used his skills to condition Pudding to smile, occassionally, the whole novel would've been different. Just a little flip of the switch- send the whole kit 'n kaboodle down a different track.



-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 4:49 pm
Subject: Re: Not a Slow Learner but a No Learner: Me


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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