| The Shins – Australia Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I love your analysis. However "facing the dodo's conundrum” has to mean more than what you say or it would not be a conundrum. The dodo’ conundrum works in both respects of your analysis though. Think of the conundrum as such, a flightless bird noted for having too easy of a life, so it did not have to evolve or try at life, so it eventually became prey/extinct. Now view it as a metaphor for the woman (possibly a pretty girl without much else going on) who has life far to easy for her own good, or possibly someone just cashing a check at a job, but slowly dying. The conundrum is not having to try, not having to evolve, because your are living a life of "quiet desperation,” like a Thoreau might say. A life too easy, so easy you this conundrum, you don’t have to try, so you don’t and you die. | |
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