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Originally Posted by activeStick
From Oxford Dictonary:
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Yeah, I’ve heard that metaphor before, obviously. I don’t understand the metaphor in relation to Treliving and Conroy… the Canary doesn’t know how to mine, has nothing to do with the act of mining, and likely doesn’t even know its senses are being exploited for the purposes of mining… why would a canary mentor a miner? What kind of correlation does the canary in the aforementioned metaphor have to do with Treliving mentoring Conroy? I assume the meaning is that the Canary leaves the mine when things get bad - as Treliving did with the Flames. However, the Canary is not teaching the miners, it’s merely signalling that it’s time to leave.
TL;DR : canaries can’t use a pick axe with their tiny wings.