As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound…

Yann Martel
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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