Sure, this is a realistic detailed technical drawing of backstage machinery... but it seems to me an intriguingly apt metaphorical representation of the theater event itself ...as seen from "the wings" . All that beauty and spectacle and meaning, drama and performance that the audience sees ( or is allowed to see) literally depends on , is run by , is organized by, an intricate series of hidden wheels, ropes, pulleys, tracks, interconnected cogs all seamlessly working together (or anyway that's the plan) These ropes, the cogs etc are real enough but they might also represent the mental systems of interconnected plans, thoughts, imagination, instincts and even whims ...the backstage of the mind as it were ...of a group of theater people who have come together to work, to create a play... an opera ..an event...
-- John Conklin
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