Mia wrote:
> Sounds like they have the right idea.
I've always loved the Sloth song from the Bestiary of
Flanders & Swann. I can't remember all the words right
now - only fragments - but great stuff it is.
"While eager beavers overhead
Rush through the undergrowth
I watch the clouds beneath my feet;
How sweet to be a sloth"
> But I would say that, having a warm spot in my heart for
> all sloths, since my husband and I have decided that the
> exhibit of the skeletons of the [extinct] giant ground
> sloths (The Great Ground Sloths, as we call them) at
> the museum of natural history in Washington, DC are a
> shrine, and we make pilgrimages when we can to pray to
> the sloths. Just being silly, of course. We are
> exceptionally silly people...
Silly is good...
Adrian.
http://www.flinders.edu.au